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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 153v-156r
Title:: Hāshīyah ʿalá Risālah fī nisbat al-taʾlīf حاشية على رسالة في نسبة التأليف 'Aṭṭārī,ʿAbd al-Munʿim Muḥammad عطاري، عبد المنعم محمد
Scope & Content:: Supercommentary (حاشية) by ʿAbd al-Munʿim Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭārī (عبد المنعم محمد العطاري, dates unknown) on a short treatise by the physician Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khujandī (فخر الدين محمد بن محمد الخجندي, fl. 14th century) discussing proportions in music. Al-Khujandī's work incorp...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 23 Rabīʿ I 1075
Extent:: Ff. 153v-156r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 165r-168r
Title:: [Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [رسالة في خبر تأليف الألحان] Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq كندي، يعقوب بن إسحق
Scope & Content:: Unique copy of the earliest extant Arabic treatise on music, by Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873), imperfect at the beginning. It is apparently a summary of an earlier and more extensive work by al-Kindī, no longer extant, entitled Great Book on the Composition of Music...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Rabīʿ II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 165r-168r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 168v-219v
Title:: [Risālah fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī] [رسالة في علم الموسيقي] Shirwānī, Fatḥ Allāh شرواني، فتح الله
Scope & Content:: An extensive treatise on music theory, also known as the Majallah fī-l-mūsīqī (مجلة في الموسيقي). It is comprised of two parts (قسم) subdivided into chapters (فصل), and is accompanied by numerous tables and diagrams. In a versified preface the treatise is dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Rabīʻ II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 168v-219v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 220r-236v
Title:: Kitāb al-kāfī fī al-mūsīqī كتاب الكافي في الموسيقي Ibn Zaylah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ابن زيلة، الحسين بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on music by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Ibn Zaylah ( أبو منصور الحسين بن محمد بن زيلة, d. 440/1048-49), a disciple of Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). It deals with the definitions of music, notes, and their relationships; rhythm; the composition of melodies...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 220r-236v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 236v-238v
Title:: Risālah fī al-mūsīqī رسالة في الموسيقى Ibn al-Munajjim, Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī ابن المنجّم، يحيى بن علي
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the modal systems of the early Islamic era by the ʿAbbasid theologian and courtier Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Munajjim (أبو أحمد يحيى بن علي ابن المنجّم, d. 300/912-13 ). The text is addressed to the ʻAbbasid Caliph al-Muʻtaḍḍid bi-llāh ( المعتضد بالله, r. 892-902). Ibn al-Mun...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 236v-238v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 238v-240r
Title:: Extracts from Kitāb al-madkhal fī al-mūsīqī من كتاب المدخل في الموسيقي Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān فارابي، أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان
Scope & Content:: A compendium of extracts from the preface and introduction to the Kitāb al-Mūsīqī al-Kabīr (كتاب الموسيقي الكبير), a major treatise on music by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī ( أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي, c. 870-950). The present text includes discussions of t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 238v-240r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2411/1
Title:: Ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt حاوي المختسرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the use of the astrolabe quadrant (ربع المقنطرات) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper (موقّت)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+38+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2411/2
Title:: Quadrant ربع
Scope & Content:: Quadrant (رُبْع), comprising an astrolabe quadrant (ربع المُقَنْطَرَات, Side A), and a sine quadrant (ربع المُجَيَّب, Side B). The quadrant is signed by its maker, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī (أحمد ابن إبراهيم الشربتلي, Side A), and dated 1256/1840-1 (Side B).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1256
Extent:: Instrument

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2424/1
Title:: Kitāb al-tījān fī mulūk ḥimyar
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd al-Malik, -834 VIAF ID: 88038425 Subject: Islamic Empire--History
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1298
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2424/2
Title:: Akhyār ʿAbīd ... fī akhbār al-Yaman
Scope & Content:: Author: ʻUbayd ibn Sharīyah, -approximately 686 VIAF ID: 14388305 Subject: Islamic Empire--History
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1298
Extent:: 1 item

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