Tuti Nama (Tales of a Parrot).
Persian version, by Ziya'i Nakhshabi, a translation of a Sanskrit collection of 52 tales narrated by a parrot (tuti) and a nightingale (sharak), in order to keep a woman away from her lover while her husband, a traveling merchant, was absent. No date or place of writing. In Nasta 'liq, Persian. Unidentified stamps of 110v, 112r, 185 v. Catalogued by MW Collier.
Ziya'i Nakhshabi, a copyist and illustrator, may have worked in India in the 18th century.
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Provenance unknown. Bears St Andrews UL pressmark C.A.6, 8.
Call number used to be msPK6559.Z6
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