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

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

• Mawṣilī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn al-Mūsīqī, active 1692, scribe
  موصلي، مسعود بن حسين الموسيقي،

Call number

Oversize LJS 294
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958901763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/824910322
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5890176

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1103 (1692)

Place

Mawṣil

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 caption title.
   

Watermark

Bovine with horns and a split tail over the word COSTA.

Extent

26 leaves : 294 x 200 (253 x 160) mm bound to 300 x 206 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (modern) + 26 + ii (modern) leaves; [1-52]; modern pagination in pencil, upper right corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original (late 17th-century) red leather laid on modern leather over boards, blind-stamped; stab-sewn.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in a naskh in black ink by Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn al-Mūsīqī al-Mawṣilī; pointed (colophon, p. 51).

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 327, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Digital
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Treatises

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 294: Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 2v — Diagram, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Diagram, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Diagram, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Diagram, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Diagram, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Diagram, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Diagram, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Diagram, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Diagram, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Diagram, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Diagram, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Table, f. 17v
• fol. 19r — Diagram, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
• fol. 23r — Diagram, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r