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Or 2361, ff 236v-238v

Record Id:
040-003474537
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003283347
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ark:/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x000004
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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-Munajjim's father had trained under the great performer and teacher Isḥāq al-Mawṣīlī (إسحاق الموصلي, d. 850) whose teachings are frequently cited in the treatise. He represents a conservative school of thought, resistant to the increasing musical innovation and non-Arab influences in cosmopolitan ninth-century Baghdad.

The present copy was completed on 2 Jumādá I 1073/13 December 1662 and collated in the city of Kashmir (Srinagar) on 25 Muḥarram 1074/29 August 1663 (see colophon, f. 238v, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 236v, lines 1-4):

رسالة يحيى بن علي بن يحيى المنجم مولى أمير المؤمنين المعتضد بالله في الموسيقي نقول

قد ذكرنا في كتابنا الذي قبل هذا صفة المغني وما يجب أن يكون عليه ووصفنا ما فيه نهاية

من ذلك ونصف الآن أمر النغم وعددها وما يأتلف منه ويختلف ومواقع أصبع أصبع من وتر

وتر وموضع كل نغمة من كل دستان ونبين ما سماه إسحاق ابن إبراهيم الموصلي المحرر في الأصوات...

　

Ends (f. 238v, lines 6-7):

...فإن أكثرهم ممن يدّعي الحذق بهذه الصناعة لو أمتحن بالمسئلة

عن بعض ما ذكرنا في هذا الكتاب لقصرت معرفته عنه

　

Colophon (f. 238v, lines 7-8):

تمت الرسالة يوم پنجشنبه ٢ شهر حمد (!) الأولى سنة ١٠٧٣

تم مقابلته بالأصل يوم الأربعاء ٢٥ محرم سنة ١٠٧٤ في بلدة كشمير

　

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003283347
040-003474537
Is part of:
Or 2361 : A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian

 

Or 2361, ff 236v-238v : Risālah fī al-mūsīqī رسالة في الموسيقىIbn al-Munajjim, Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī ابن المنجّم،…
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032-003283347[0011]/040-003474537
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Extent:

Ff. 236v-238v

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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1662
End Date:
1662
Date Range:
2 Jumādá I 1073
Calendar:
Hijri qamari
Era:
AH
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Finding Aids:
  • 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. 143, p. 24
  • Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, XI, p. 561
  • 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. 200-01
Publications:

Edition:

  • Ibn al-Munajjim, Risālah fī al-mūsīqá, ed. by Zakarīyā Yūsuf (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Qalam, 1964)

Studies:

  • Shawqī, Yūsuf, Risālat Yaḥyá ibn al-Munajjim fī-l-mūsīqá wa kashf rumūz kitāb al-aghānī (al-Qāhirah: Maṭābiʻ al-Hayʼah al-Misrīyah al-ʻĀmmah li-l-Kitāb, 1976)
  • Wright, Owen, 'Ibn al-Munajjim and the Early Arabian Modes', Galpin Society Journal, 19 (1966), pp. 27-48
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Ibn al-Munajjim, Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī, 855-912