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1. 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 Sun...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: ca 1073
Extent:: Ff. 2r-15r

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 Persian, '...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19 Rabīʿ II 1075
Extent:: Ff. 240v-246r

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 Masīḥ a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 17 Ṣafar 1073
Extent:: Ff. 15r-17v

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; an...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 220r-236v

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 incorporat...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 23 Rabīʿ I 1075
Extent:: Ff. 153v-156r

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 (علاء...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 157r-164r

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-Munajji...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 236v-238v

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 the div...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 238v-240r

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 (ال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Rabīʿ II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 165r-168r

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 ibn...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Rabīʻ II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 168v-219v