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1. Or 2361

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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 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
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Ff. 2r-15r

3. 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

4. Or 2361, ff 18r-32r

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Or 2361, ff 18r-32r
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 1073
Extent:

Ff. 18r-32r

5. 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

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 153v-156r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 153v-156r
Title:
Hāshīyah ʿalá Risālah fī nisbat al-taʾlīf حاشية على رسالة في نسبة التأليف 'Aṭṭārī,ʿAbd al-Munʿim Muḥammad عطاري، عبد المنعم محمد
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
23 Rabīʿ I 1075
Extent:

Ff. 153v-156r

8. 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

9. Or 2361, ff 165r-168r

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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

10. Or 2361, ff 168v-219v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 168v-219v
Title:
[Risālah fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī] [رسالة في علم الموسيقي] Shirwānī, Fatḥ Allāh شرواني، فتح الله
Scope & Content:
An extensive treatise on music theory, also known as the Majallah fī-l-mūsīqī (مجلة في الموسيقي). It is comprised of two parts (قسم) subdivided into chapters (فصل), and is accompanied by numerous tables and diagrams. In a versified preface the treatise is dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
27 Rabīʻ II 1073
Extent:

Ff. 168v-219v