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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 16659, ff 310v-342v

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Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
Title:
Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 310v-342v

3. 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