Or 15665 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Tuti'namah
Contents
1 copy of Ṭūṭī′nāmah by Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, d. 1350
Title: Ṭūṭī′nāmah
Title: طوطی نامه
The collection of prose tales of Indian origin, in the famous version completed in 730/1330 by Z̤iyā’ al-Dīn Nakhshabī..
Other contents: title, f. 1r; notes in margin, partly cut off, for example on f. 42v and 208r.
Language(s): Persian
Filiation:
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Thin beige paper.
Extent: 220 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 178 × 94 mm.
Layout
Hand(s)
Nastaʿlīq.
Decoration
Headings, rubrics and verse markers in red. Text frames: red, red, blue.
Additions:
Binding
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History
Origin: Muḥarram 1202 (October - November 1792) AH ; India
Provenance and Acquisition
2000-10-12
Acquired from Christies sale, 12 Oct. 2000, one of 10 items forming lot 223.
Record Sources
Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
BL
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