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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 68v-153r
Title:: [Sharḥ Mawlānā Mubārakshāh bar adwār] [شرح مولانا مباركشاه بر ادوار]
Scope & Content:: An extensive anonymous commentary on Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī (كتاب الادوار في علم الموسيقي), by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف الأرموي), including the entire text, overlined in red. The commentary is ascribed in the heading - a later additio...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Jumādá II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 68v-153r

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 157r-164r
Title:: Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī موسيقي حكمت علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Section on music from the Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 157r-164r

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 2361, ff 240v-246r
Title:: Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي
Scope & Content:: A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى). The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon, f. 246r, lines 7-9). A diagram in red ink labelled in Per...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19 Rabīʿ II 1075
Extent:: Ff. 240v-246r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 247r-269v
Title:: Risālah-'i kanz al-tuḥaf dar mūsīqī رساله كنز التحف در موسيقي
Scope & Content:: A Persian treatise on music, the composition of which was finished on 22 Jumādá I of either 756/4 June 1355, or 764/9 March 1363 depending on the reading of a chronogram on f. 269v, line 17, one letter of which lacks any diacritical points (see discussion of this chronogram in MS IO Islamic 2067...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 12 Rajab 1075
Extent:: Ff. 247r-269v

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