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Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

LJS 235 Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá. / كتاب الادوار في الموسيقى

Title

Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá.
كتاب الادوار في الموسيقى

Authors

Other related names

Call number

LJS 235
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

The item is undated; perhaps produced in the 16th century.
Date
between 1500 and 1599?

Summary

Treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud or lute.

Notes

Extent

12 leaves : 235 x 165 (200 x 135) mm bound to 244 x 176 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii + 12 + iii leaves; [1-24]; sporadic modern pagination in pencil, upper right corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in contemporary red leather over boards, blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and surrounding cartouches and blind-tooled frame.

Layout

  • Written in 28 long lines, with some diagrams arranged in 2 columns (for example, p. 9-12).
  • Decoration

    Diagrams and rubrications in red ink throughout.

    Script

  • Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.
  • Provenance

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