Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.279

Tales of a Parrot Facsimile Edition

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The Cleveland manuscript of the Tales of a Parrot (or Tuti-Nama) was painted for the Mughal emperor Akbar around 1560 and is the most profusely illustrated copy of the text. The story is told as fifty-two moralizing tales narrated by a clever parrot over fifty-two consecutive nights, instructing its owner, Khujasta, to remain faithful to her husband in his absence. The manuscript boasts 211 miniatures. The bright, detailed narrative miniatures, which reflect Persian and Indian styles, were painted by more than forty artists supervised by two Persians.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Tales of a Parrot": Ṭūṭī-nāma facsimile edition, published by Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA), 1976

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Manuscript book description compiled by Dongwon Esther Kim.
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Ṭūṭī-nāma

Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA), 1976

  • Commentary (English, German) by Chandra, Pramod; Lee, Sherman E.
  • This is a partial facsimile of the original document, Tales of a Parrot: the facsimile might represent only a part, or doesn't attempt to replicate the format, or doesn't imitate the look-and-feel of the original document.

The facsimile (fully colored) is the complete reproduction of the whole original document. The pages are represented on a larger white background (book size: 240 x 180 mm).

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Leather, according to oriental pattern.

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