[Ṭūṭīʹnāmah ... etc.,
19th century?].

[طوطی نامه ... الخ, قرن 19م؟].

Description

Main Author

Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, -1350.

Related Names

Nuttall, Frank E., 1875-1943, former owner.
Qādirī, Muḥammad, active 17th century.

Language(s)

Persian

Published

[18--?].

Subjects

Manuscripts, Persian > Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan > Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Folk literature, Persian > Folk literature, Persian / Early works to 1800.
Persian literature > Persian literature / 747-1500.
Persian language > Persian language / Grammar.

Summary

Fine copy of the Ṭūṭīʹnāmah of Shaykh Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (d.1350) in the reduced and simplified version of Muḥammad Khudavānd Qādirī (fl. 17th cent.), preceded by a selection of alphabetic and grammatical exercises with dialogues.

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 897
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest 19th century ; binding likely mid to late 19th century.
Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- b. Slip with note "Persian Manuscripts (Heyworth Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owen notes" -- c. Scrap from catalog of law books in French [all no longer in volume].
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 46
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) though not flush with text block, etc. ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers blind-tooled in mitred-panel style, with outer border and inner panel stained to a dark brown ; spine blind-stamped with narrow bands and floral motifs ; edges of text block blue-flecked ; sewn in white thread over two cords (not recessed, visible as ridges at spine, flexible sewing) ; worked endbands, quite narrow ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, staining, etc.
Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct, some curving) and chain lines spaced roughly 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal, curving), cream in color, thin and quite transluscent though sturdy, lightly burnished ; flyleaves in European laid paper with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of Fortune (figure standing on ball holding banner aloft) and "VAN GELDER ZONEN" (compare Heawood no.1365), sturdy, cream in color.
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 8 IV(73), IV-1 (80), ii ; exclusively quaternions ; final leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "همه شب بیدار بود بر بستر نرم خفت"
Incipit: [Ṭūṭīʹnāmah] "بعد از جنس جنس ثنا و صفت پیدا کنندۀ آسمان و زمین کیفیت و حقیقت این است که داستان و قصه ها و حکایات گفتۀ حضرت نخشبی رحمت الله علیه که در طوطی نامه بعبارت سخت و دقیق نوشته بودند از برای مفصل و بیان وار معلوم شدن همه مردمان محمد خدواند قادری اصلح الله شانه ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Inscription in pencil on inner front flyleaf (p.1) listing contents in French "1. Syllabaire, conjugations et dialogues persans 2. Touty-nameh recueil de contes persan" ; inscription on verso of final leaf (p.160) listing contents in English "Persian Ms. containing I Persian Grammar and Dialogues II Tute Nāmeh or Tales of a Parrot" ; occasional marginal notes in pencil providing terms in English, often with corresponding word in text underlined.

Physical Description

80 leaves : paper ; 230 x 160 (160 x 100) mm. bound to 235 x 165 mm.

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