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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 2361

11. Or 2361, ff 220r-236v

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

12. Or 2361, ff 236v-238v

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

13. Or 2361, ff 238v-240r

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

14. Or 2361, ff 240v-246r

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

15. Or 2361, ff 247r-269v

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