Project / Collection: Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme / Subject: Organ (Musical instrument)--Construction--... works to 1800 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Organ (Musical instrument)--Construction--... works to 1800

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v
Title:: Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Begins (f. 21r, lines...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: ff. 21r-25v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9649
Title:: Three treatises on musical organs by Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:: Three technical treatises (رسالات) on the construction of musical organs attributed to Mūrisṭus (مورسطس), variously and tentatively identified as Ariston (the dedicatee of the Pneumatica of Philo of Byzantium, d. c 220 BC), Ameristos (an early Greek mathematician mentioned in Proclus' [d. 485] c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+13+xxii

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