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1. Or 2361

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361
Title:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1073-1075
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+269+iv

2. Or 2361, ff 33r-68r

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Or 2361, ff 33r-68r
Title:
Sharḥ lil-adwār شرح للأدوار
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13 Jumādá I 1073
Extent:

Ff. 33r-68r

3. 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

4. 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

5. Or 2361, ff 15r-17v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 15r-17v
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 1073
Extent:

Ff. 15r-17v

6. Or 2361, ff 68v-153r

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

7. Or 2361, ff 165r-168r

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

8. Or 2361, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 2r-15r
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
ca 1073
Extent:

Ff. 2r-15r

9. 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

10. Or 2361, ff 157r-164r

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