[IO Islamic 3496] طوطى نامه

Ṭûṭinâma. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 743 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 3496 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 743 Ṭûṭinâma (طوطى نامه). The older and larger version of the famous ‘Tales of a Parrot,’ by Ḍiyâi Nakhshabî (or Ḍiyâ-aldîn Nakhshabî), containing fifty-two stories, and composed A.H. 730 (A.D. 1330); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 444-448; Rieu ii. p. 753; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 985, and Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. xxi. p. 505 sq.; J. Aumer, pp. 53 and 54; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. i. pp. 355 and 356; Göttinger Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1858, p. 529, etc. Translated into English by M. Gerrans, London, 1792. On the Turkish version see W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 439. Beginning:الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و العاقبة للمتّقين و الصلوات الخ. The usual beginning of most other copies (but with the omission of the first two words, مناجات بحضرت) appears here on fol. 2a: رازق النعاب فى عشّه الخ. The book concludes on fol. 242b. On fol. 243a the date is given, viz. 4th of Jumâdâ-alûlâ, in the first year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (=A.H. 1069, A.D. 1659, Jan. 28). On ff. 243b-245a a ḳaṣîdah by Shâh Ni’mat Walî-allâh (or more commonly Ni’mat-allâh Walî, who died A.H. 834=A.D. 1431, see Rieu ii. p. 634b) and some arithmetical tables are added. Many pages slightly injured. No. 3496, olim 8. J. 26, ff, 245, ll. 15-19; Nasta’lîḳ ; ff. 1-6, 33-36, 39-42, 181, 188-245 supplied by various other hands; size, 87/8 in. by 5 ½ in.