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Add MS 23494
- Record Id:
- 032-003252052
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252052
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026906787.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030451063.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23494
- Title:
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al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في الفنّ الموسيقي
Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman موصلي، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on music theory relating the musical modes, or maqams (مقامات), to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day, etc. by Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifā‘ī ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, given the laqab al-Musallam al-Mawṣilī (أبو صالح السيّد الرفاعي الملقّب بالمسلم الموصلي ابن عبد الرحمن, d. 1737; see f. 3r, lines 6-7). The text is a commentary on a Persian treatise on music theory by ‘Abd al-Mu’min al-Balkhī (عبد المؤمن البلخي; see f. 3r, line 9).
Contents:
Introduction (المقدمة; ff. 2v-3v);
Chapter 1 (الباب الأوّل; f. 4r-4v);
Chapter 2 (الباب الثاني; ff. 4v-5v);
Chapter 3 (الباب الثالث; ff. 5v- 7v);
Conclusion (الخاتمة; ff. 7v-9v).
The treatise contains two fold-out diagrams on ff. 6r and 8r.
The treatise is followed by an anonymous poem (f. 10r-10v) relating the modes, or maqams (مقامات), to the hours, planets, days of the week, spheres, signs of the zodiac and the temperaments.
Begins (f. 2v, lines 3-5):
الحمد لله الذي منّ علينا بدين الإسلام وهدانا بنبيه محمد سيّد
الأنام وشرّفنا على كثير ممّن خلق بمريد الكرم والأنعام وكلّفنا
بالعبادة وأقام كلّ فرد منّا بمقام فسبحان من اسمعنا خطاب
Ends (f. 9v, lines 15-19):
... ثمّ ليختم بما ابتدأ ولا
يتنقل إلى غيرها من المقامات فإنّه الزواحلا من الانتقال من
مقام إلى مقام واقهما على هذا الأستاذ الكبير يوسف جامي
وإبراهيم نهاوندي وعلي الزوياني ومولانا جسين چاکیري
وغيرهم
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252052
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003252052
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. v+1+iii+9+xiii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026906787.0x000001
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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: Western laid paper with watermark bearing initials 'G F B' visible in gutter on most folios
Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm leaf [150 x 80 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: Red leather case binding with blind tooled medallion and pendants on both boards
Condition: Minor tears and damage to some outer margins repaired
Seals: f. 2r
- Custodial History:
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Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43): his seal, undated, with legend عبده تيلر (f. 2r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860
- Administrative Context:
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Baghdad?
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1467, p. 668
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman, al-Durr al-naqī fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī, ed. by Jalāl al-Ḥanafī (Baghdād: Dār al Jumhūrīyah, 1964)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman, musician, d 1737
- Subjects:
- Music theory--Early works to 1800
