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Or 9649, ff 1v-5r
- Record Id:
- 040-002561278
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002561059
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022550358.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023512842.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9649, ff 1v-5r
- Title:
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Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī صنعة الأرغين البوقي
Mūrisṭus مورسطس
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on the construction of a hydaulic pipe organ (الأرغين البوقي; lit. 'trumpet organ'). The instrument is said to have been carried into battle and used as a siren capable of emitting a blast the could be heard for sixty miles. The author states that he made such an organ for the 'king of the inner Franks (ملك إفرجة الداخلة; f. 2r, line 1)'.
A diagram of the organ appears on f. 5r.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
هذه رسالة لمورسطس
صنعة الأرغين البوقي الذي يذهب صوته ستين ميلًا
قال مورسطس كانت هذه الآلة تحمل معهم في حروبهم لأن
بلدهم كان كثير الأعداء من كل وجه ...
Ends (f. 4v, lines 9-12):
... فعلى قدر ذلك يخرج الصوت
من ألوان تقطيعه من لذيذ مطرب وغير ذلك إلا أن أصل ما
اتخذت له هذه الألة ذهاب الصوت إلى البعد
فاعلم ذلك إن شاء الله تعالى
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002561059
040-002561278 - Is part of:
- Or 9649 : Three treatises on musical organs by Mūrisṭusمورسطس
Or 9649, ff 1v-5r : Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī صنعة الأرغين البوقيMūrisṭus مورسطس - Hierarchy:
- 032-002561059[0001]/040-002561278
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 9649
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 1v-5r
- 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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Edition:
- Cheikho, Louis, 'Thalāth maqālāt ‘arabīyah fī al-ālāt al-munaghghimah', Al-Machriq, 9, (1906), 21-23
Translation:
- Farmer, Henry George, The Organ of the Ancients from Eastern Sources: Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic (London: William Reeves, 1931), pp. 128-135
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)