Cleveland Museum of Art
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
- Date
- c. 1560
- Medium
- gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The text of this manuscript is written in the Persian language using a clear form of the Arabic script called naskh . On this page the parrot is feigning concern that Khujasta's lover might not be as highborn as he claims to be. The prose is interrupted with lines of verse written in the gold-outlined boxes and introduced in blue with the word qat'e , meaning cut, as though the verse is cutting into the story.
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