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Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
- Record Id:
- 040-003474541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003283347
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100096028305.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
- Title:
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Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار
Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي
- Scope & Content:
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A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى).
The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon, f. 246r, lines 7-9).
A diagram in red ink labelled in Persian, 'A musical circle copied from a Frankish [European] book' (دايره موسيقى از كتاب فرنگى نوشته شد), has been added at the end of the treatise (f. 246r).
Begins (f. 240v, lines 1-3):
نغمات حمد كامله حكيم كار سازى را اعظم شأنه كه ثنا خوانى عند ليبان كلشن سبوح قدوس
ربنا و رب الملائكة و الروح بهواى لقائى اوست و آوازه شكر شامله كريم بنده نوازى
را كه خوش الحانى مرغان چمن فازكرونى از كركم...
Ends (f. 246r, lines 6-7):
بطريقه مولانا صفي الدين عبد المؤمن كه ايشان والد جناب فضايلمآب كمالات
اكتساب خواجه عبد الله مرواريد اند...
Colophon (f. 246r, lines 7-9):
...تمام شد بتاريخ نوزدهم شهر
ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٧٥ بدست محمد أمين در دهلي
بجهت شاه قباد حارثي البدخشي المخاطب بديانتخان
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003283347
040-003474541 - Is part of:
- Or 2361 : A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Or 2361, ff 240v-246r : Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتارBukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي - Hierarchy:
- 032-003283347[0013]/040-003474541
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 2361
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 240v-246r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x000002
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- Languages:
- Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1664
- End Date:
- 1664
- Date Range:
- 19 Rabīʿ II 1075
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Finding Aids:
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- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, XIII, p. 561
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1895), Item 162, IV, p. 115
- Publications:
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Study:
- Brown [Schofield], Katherine Butler, ‘Evidence of Indo-Persian Musical Synthesis? The Tanbur and Rudra Vina in Seventeenth-century Indo-Persian Treatises’, Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, 36-7 (2006), pp. 89-103
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)