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Or 9649
- Record Id:
- 032-002561059
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002561059
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022547972.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023512809.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9649
- Title:
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Three treatises on musical organs by Mūrisṭus
مورسطس
- Scope & Content:
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Three technical treatises (رسالات) on the construction of musical organs attributed to Mūrisṭus (مورسطس), variously and tentatively identified as Ariston (the dedicatee of the Pneumatica of Philo of Byzantium, d. c 220 BC), Ameristos (an early Greek mathematician mentioned in Proclus' [d. 485] commentary on Euclid's Elements), and Ctesibius (d. c 222 BC; see Farmer, Organ of the Ancients, 1931, pp. 16-20). The treatises have been edited by Cheikho ('Thalāth maqālāt ‘arabīyah al-munaghghimah', 1906) and the first two treatises have been translated into English by Farmer (Organ of the Ancients, [treatise two] pp. 63-70 and [treatise one] 128-135).
Contents:
- (1) Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī (صنعة الأرغين البوقي; ff. 1v-5r);
- (2) Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-zamarī (صنعة الأرغين الزمري; ff. 6v-10v);
- (3) Ṣan‘at al-juljul (صنعة الجلجل; ff. 11v-13r).
One diagram at the end of each treatise: ff. 5r, 10v and 13r. Folios 1r, 5v, 6r and 11r are blank.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- 032-002561059
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 9649, ff 1v-5r : Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī صنعة الأرغين البوقيMūrisṭus مورسطس
Or 9649, ff 6v-10v : Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-zamarī صنعة الأرغين الزمريMūrisṭus مورسطس
Or 9649, ff 11v-13r : Ṣan‘at al-juljul صنعة الجلجلMūrisṭus مورسطس
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- 032-002561059
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. iii+13+xxii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022547972.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 240 x 174 mm leaf [166 x 80 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated titles, headings and references to numbers in diagrams, and diagrams in red
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Excellent condition
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), 10 October 1925
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Cheikho, Louis, 'Thalāth maqālāt ‘arabīyah fī al-ālāt al-munaghghimah', Al-Machriq, 9, (1906), 18-28
Translation and study:
- Farmer, Henry George, The Organ of the Ancients from Eastern Sources: Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic (London: William Reeves, 1931)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)