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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language Arabic Subject Music theory--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 7471, ff 41v-92r

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Add MS 7471, ff 41v-92r
Title:
شرح الأدوار Sharḥ al-adwār
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn Fākhir al-Urmawī's (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف بن فاخر الأرموي, d. 1294) Book of Cycles (كتاب أدوار), an extremely influential treatise on music theory. A title line added by a later hand at the head of f. 41v identifies the tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1104
Extent:

Ff. 41v-92r

2. Add MS 23494

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Add MS 23494
Title:
al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في الفنّ الموسيقي Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman موصلي، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:
Treatise on music theory relating the musical modes, or maqams (مقامات), to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day, etc. by Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifā‘ī ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, given the laqab al-Musallam al-Mawṣilī (أبو صالح السيّد الرفاعي الملقّب بالمسلم الموصلي ابن عبد الرحمن,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+1+iii+9+xiii

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