[IO Islamic 2331] طوطى نامه

• Ṭûṭinâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 752 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2331 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ṭûṭinâma.

The later and abridged version of the ‘Tales of a Parrot’ made by Muḥammad Ḳâdirî in the 17th century of the Christian era. It has been edited and translated into English by Gladwin Calcutta, 1800, and London, 1801; German translation by Iken, Stuttgart, 1822; comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1975 and 2028; Rieu ii. p. 754; J. Aumer, p. 54.

Beginning: بعد از جنس جنس ثنا و صفت پيدا كنندۀ آسمان و زمین الخ.

This abridgment contains, like the British Museum copy, only thirty-five stories. No date. Modern copy. College of Fort William, 1825.

On other Persian and Turkish versions (for instance, the one mentioned in Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 172), and on the Hindûstânî version of Ḳâdirî’s abridgment, the ‘Totâ-Kahânî,’ see W. Pertsch, loc. cit. (No. 743 above), and Bodleian Cat., No. 444.

No. 2331, ff. 77, ll. 12-13; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 7^1/4 in. by 5 in.