Parrot book
The parrot book is based on an Indian collection of fairy tales that was written in Sanskrit in the 12th century . The title Sukasaptati refers to the seventy stories of a parrot , which are supported by a framework plot. The stories are said to prevent the wife of a businessman who is on a business trip from committing adultery.
This collection was abridged at the beginning of the 13th century by the poet Ziya 'al-Din Nachschabi ( Persian ضیاءالدین نخشبی) translated into Persian, edited and published as Tuti nameh . It now contains 52 stories, some of which are from the Sindbad cycle of the Thousand and One Nights .
In the 15th century, the parrot book reached Europe in Turkish and Persian, where it was soon translated into English and German. A well-known German translation comes from Georg Rosen and appeared in 2 volumes in 1858.
The Tibetan version of the parrot book was published in German in 1983, the edition was created within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 12 "Central Asia" of the University of Bonn.
expenditure
- Wolfgang Morgenroth (ed. And transl.): The parrot book. Love stories and fables from ancient India. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1968
- Ernst Roenau (reteller): The Persian parrot book. Book decoration Rosà . Artur Wolf, Vienna 1922 ( at Internet Archive )
- Georg Rosen (translator): Tuti-Nameh. The parrot book . A collection of oriental stories, Insel taschenbuch, Frankfurt aM / Leipzig 1994 ISBN 978-345833324-1
literature
- Christine Mielke: Cyclical-serial narration. Narrated storytelling from 1001 nights to TV series . De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, pp. 49-58, ISBN 978-3110186307
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Silke Hermann (Hg): The Tibetan Version of the Parrot Book , Sankt Augustin: VGH-Wissenschaftsverlag 1983, ISBN 3-88280-016-X , series of contributions to Tibetan narrative research; Vol. 5