Nakhshabi, Ziya' U'D-Din. Simsar, Muhammed A. editor.

The Cleveland Museum of Art's Tuti-Nama / Tales of a Parrot

Cleveland, OH / Graz, Austris: Cleveland Museum of Art / Akademische Druck U. Verlagsanstalt, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Large thick octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 338 p. w/ color images form manuscripts, bibliography. A nice edition of Tales of a Parrot (52 in all), originally written in the 14th c., and in turn drew on a twelfth century were called Seventy Tales of the Parrot. Mostly moralistic stories to encourage fidelity and control over women. Very good / very good. Item #16894

Price: $85.00