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Or 15030
- Record Id:
- 032-003452763
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003452763
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100079514674.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171511747.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 15030
- Title:
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Պու Քիթապն իսմի Թութի նամէ Pu K'it'apn Ismi T'ut'i Seventy Tales of a Parrot
- Scope & Content:
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An Armenian manuscript containing:
f.1r-f.216v The Ṭūṭi-nāma of Ziya'u'd-din Nakhshabi, 52 tales written in Persian, based on the Śukasaptati, 'Seventy Tales of a Parrot', a collection of 70 Indian tales written in Sanskrit. The translator of the Armeno-Turkish version of the Ṭūṭi-nāma in this manuscript is unknown. It contains 41 tales.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Armenian Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003452763", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 15030: Պու Քիթապն իսմի Թութի նամէ Pu K'it'apn Ismi T'ut'i Seventy Tales of a Parrot" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003452763
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003452763
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item, 217 ff
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100171511747.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Armenian
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1800
- Date Range:
- 1800
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper, bearing watermark of crescent with letters F.A. (f.192r) and V.C. (ff.80r-v) and large arabesque (f.100r). 216 plus iv folios. 23 x 17 cm (written surface 17.5 x 11 cm). Text in single columns of 28 lines. Main text is in thick sheghagir in black ink, paragraph initials are in red ink, each chapter begins with a summary in small sheghagir. Binding is brown leather over boards with light blue endpapers.
- Finding Aids:
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For more information, see Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume 2. London: The British Library. pp 935-941.
- Publications:
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Cankara, Murat. 2018. 'Armeno-Turkish Writing and the Question of Hybridity' in Kathryn Babayan and Michael Pifer (eds.) An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp 173-191.
Garrans, B. 1792. Tales of a Parrot, Done into English, from a Persian Manuscript Entitled Tooti Nameh, by a Teacher of the Persic, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldaic, Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English Languages, Volume 1. London.
Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume 2. London: The British Library. pp 935-941.
Simsar, Muhammad Ahmed. 1978. Tales of a Parrot by Ziya'u'd-din Nakhshabi. Cleveland, OH.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)