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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

Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294
ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف،

Other related names

Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

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

bibid: 9950569233503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584676
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5056923 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs235.html

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

Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).

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

Ownership stamps of an early owner (p. 1, 24).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Subjects topical

Music--Early works to 1800
Music theory--Arab countries--Early works to 1800

Genres

Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries
Diagrams
Treatises
Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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