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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme 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

3. Or 136

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Or 136
Title:
Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī كتاب الادوار في علم الموسيقي al-Urmawī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf أرموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف
Scope & Content:
The Book of Cycles (كتاب أدوار), a succinct but extremely influential treatise on musical theory by Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn Fākhir al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف بن فاخر الأرموي, d. 1294). The title page gives the author's name as Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min (صفي الدين ع...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
792
Extent:

Codex; i+55+ii

4. Or 2361

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361
Title:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian, copied for Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (شاه قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. Delhi, 1083/1672-3) who by the time of the volume's compilation held the title Dīyānat Khān (ديانتخان). Dīyānat ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1073-1075
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+269+iv

5. Or 13019

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13019
Title:
[Kitāb al-inʿām bi-maʿrifat al-anghām كتاب الإنعام بمعرفة الأنغام] Ṣaydāwī, Shams al-Dīn صيداوي، شمس الدين
Scope & Content:
A musical treatise in verse accompanied by diagrams, tables, and lyrical poems, by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṣaydāwī al-Dhahabī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين محمد الصيداوي الذهبي الدمشقي, d. 1506). It was copied by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shāfiʿī (عبد العزيز ابن...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13 Ramaḍān 906
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+19+xxx