[EARLY ISLAMIC SUKASAPTATI] Tutinâme [i.e. The book of parrot]. Narrated by Sari Abdullah Efendi

Translated into Persian by ZIYAEDDIN EL-BODAYUNI EL-HINDI [NAHSHEBÎ], (?-1350)., Matbaa-i Darü's-Saltanati's-Seniye (Matbaa-i Amire)., Kostantiniyye [Constantinople - Istanbul], [AH 1256] = 1840. Original full leather bdg. in Islamic style with a flap. Demy 8vo. (22  15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 285 p. Rebacked to spine, slight wear on binding. Overall a good copy. Early Turkish edition of the book of parrot (or the book of Humayun), which is a 14th-century series of 52 stories, originally written in Persian, translated by Sari Abdullah Efendi (1584-1660), who was an Ottoman mystic poet and scholar. The adventure stories narrated by a parrot, night after night, for 52 successive nights, are moralistic stories to persuade his female owner Khojasta not to commit any adulterous act with any lover, in the absence of her husband. She is always on the point of leaving the house to meet her lover until the loyal parrot detains her with a fascinating story. The