The ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt (عجائب المخلوقات) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد قزوینی) translated from Arabic into Persian at the request of Ibrāhīm ʻĀdil Shāh, ruler of Bijapur in Shaʻbān AH 954 (1547). The text is illustrated with 461 mid-seventeenth-century Deccani paintings and d...
al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī القانون المسعودي Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
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An early and complete copy of the comprehensive astronomical work, or Canon, by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī was dedicated to Sultan Mas‘ūd of Ghaznī (reg. 1030-1040), and summarises the astronomy of the Alma...
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
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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 ...
Risālah dar jamʿ-i maqālāt-i fuquhāʾ dar bāb shanīdan-i alḥān رساله در جمع مقالات فقهاء در باب شنيدن الحان Riz̤avī, Muḥammad ibn Jalāl رضوى، محمد ابن جلال
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A treatise in Persian on the lawfulness of music, written by Muḥammad ibn Jalāl Riz̤avī (محمد بن جلال رضوى), in 1028/1618-19 (f. 2v, line 11). The text, also entitled Risālah-yi dar aqwāl-i fuqahāʼ dar samāʻ-i alḥān (رساله در اقوال فقهاء در سماع الحان, f. 2r), discusses the opinions of the great...
Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān رساله مسيحي در كيفيت وحقيقت سماع واباحتان Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ابن عبد الرحمن، عبد الجليل
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A tract in Persian on the lawfulness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī (حكيم سدرا بن حكيم فخر الدين شيرازي, d. 1061/1650-51), who came to India in c. 1603 and was awarded the title Mas...
al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-adwār fī al-mūsīqī الرسالة المسماة بالأدوار في الموسيقي al-Urmawī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf الأرموي، صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف
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A copy of Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī (كتاب الأدوار في علم الموسيقي), a seminal work on musical theory in fifteen chapters by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف الأرموي, d. 1294). The text includes a number of tables and diagrams in the form of circ...
Anonymous commentary on the preceding work in this volume, the Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī (كتاب الأدوار في علم الموسيقي), by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف الأرموي, d. 1294). Brief lemmata from the text are preceded by qāla (قال, 'He said:') an...
[Sharḥ Mawlānā Mubārakshāh bar adwār] [شرح مولانا مباركشاه بر ادوار]
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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...
Hāshīyah ʿalá Risālah fī nisbat al-taʾlīf حاشية على رسالة في نسبة التأليف 'Aṭṭārī,ʿAbd al-Munʿim Muḥammad عطاري، عبد المنعم محمد
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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...
Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī موسيقي حكمت علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
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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 (...
