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Or 2361, ff 165r-168r
- Record Id:
- 040-003474526
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003283347
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100096027252.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x00000a
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- Or 2361, ff 165r-168r
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[Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [رسالة في خبر تأليف الألحان]
Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq كندي، يعقوب بن إسحق
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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 (الكتاب الأعظم في التأليف; see Shiloah, Amnon, The Theory of Music in Arabic Writings (c. 900-1900): Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in Libraries of Europe and the U.S.A. (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1979), pp. 256-57). A title added above the incipit of the text calls it ‘[Extract] from the book of Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī on Composition – three folios’ (من كتاب يعقوب بن إسحاق الكندي في التأليف سه ورق).
The copy was completed on 17 Rabīʿ II 1073/29 November 1662 from a manuscript written in Damascus and dated late Shawwāl 621/November 1224, which was itself copied from another manuscript described as defective and unreliable (see colophon, f. 168r, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 165r, lines 1-2)
وك إلى ا كله وثمن كله وقد بينا أن فضل الذي بالخمسة على الذي بالأربعة كل وثمن كل فإذن بعد و التي هي مطلق
المثلث من ا التي هي أول دساتين المثنى هي البعد الذي بالخمسة...
Ends (f. 168r, lines 12-13):
...وهذا فيما سألت كاف كفاك الله المهم من أمر
دنياك وأخريك والحمد لله رب العالمين كملت رسالة يعقوب بن إسحاق الكندي في خبر تأليف الألحان
Colophon (f. 168r, lines 14-16):
وفرغنا من تحريره ١٧ شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٧٣ وكان المنقول
عنه مكتوبًا في أواخر شوال سنة ٦٢١ بمدينة دمشق
من نسخة سقيمة غير معتمدة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003283347
040-003474526 - Is part of:
- Or 2361 : A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Or 2361, ff 165r-168r : [Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [رسالة في خبر تأليف الألحان]Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003283347[0008]/040-003474526
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 2361
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- File
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Ff. 165r-168r
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x00000a
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1662
- End Date:
- 1662
- Date Range:
- 17 Rabīʿ II 1073
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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- Farmer, Henry George, The Sources of Arabian Music. An Annotated Bibliography of Arabic Manuscripts which Deal with the Theory, Practice, and History of Arabian Music, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965), No. 53, p. 9
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, VIII, p. 559
- Shiloah, Amnon, The Theory of Music in Arabic Writings (c. 900-1900): Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in Libraries of Europe and the U.S.A. (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1979), pp. 256-57
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Editions:
- Shawqī, Yūsuf, Risālat al-kindi fī khubr sināʻat al-taʼlīf (al-Qāhirah: Maṭba‘at Dār al-Kutub, 1969)
- Yūsuf, Zakarīyā, 'Risālah fi khubr ṣināʻat al-taʼlīf', Muʼallafāt al-kindī al-musīqīyah, ed. Zakarīyā Yūsuf (Baghdād: Maṭba‘at shafīq, 1962), pp. 45–66
Translation and facsimile:
- Cowl, C., ‘The Risāla fī Ḫubr Tāʼlīf al-’Alhān of Ja’qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (790–874)’, The Consort, 23 (1966), pp. 129–66
Study and partial edition:
- Wright, Owen, 'Al-Kindi's Braid', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (2006), pp. 1-32
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)