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Title

Kitāb-i Advār.
[کتاب ادوار]

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 295
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950574213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751430611
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5057421 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs295.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian and Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 815 (1412)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Composite manuscripts with two works. The first is a Persian translation of al-Urmawī's treatise 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 (f. 1v-38v). The second is a short, anonymous work on the science of letters (ʻilm al-ḥurūf) (f. 41r-61v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

61 leaves : 148 x 88 (118 x 50-52) mm. bound to 151 x 92 mm

Collation

Paper, 61 + ii; 1⁶ 2¹⁴ 3⁶ 4¹⁴ 5-6⁸ 7⁴(+1); [1-75], modern pagination in eastern arabic numerals in ink (f. 1v-38v), upper outer corners. Catchwords on each leaf of treatise (f. 1-37), some trimmed away, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather with black leather doublure, gilt-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and gilt-stamped frame.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines (f. 1-38); border-ruled; second work written in 14 long lines (f. 41-56).

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); thuluth headings in gold, diagrams and tables in red and black, and selected characters and words in red ink throughout treatise; tables in red and black and numerals and selected words in red in second work.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq script by 2 hands (treatise f. 1-38, f. 41-56), with treatise headings in thuluth script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 April 1989, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• 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
• Islamic occultism--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800
• Symbolism of numbers--Islamic countries--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Compilation manuscripts
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb-i Advār, f. 1v
• fol. 41r — [Commentary], f. 41r

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 1v
• fol. 5r — Illuminated heading, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 8r — Illuminated heading, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Illuminated heading, f. 8v
• fol. 10v — Illuminated heading, f. 10v
• 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 — Table, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Table, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Table, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Table, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Table, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Table, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Table, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Diagram, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Illuminated heading, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Illuminated heading, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Illuminated heading, f. 20r
• fol. 20r — Table, f. 20r
• fol. 21v — Table, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Table, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Table, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Table, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Table, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Table, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Table, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Table, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Table, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Table, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Table, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Table, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Table, f. 27v
• fol. 28v — Table, f. 28v
• fol. 28v — Illuminated heading, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 29v — Illuminated heading, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Illuminated heading, f. 30r
• fol. 30r — Table, f. 30r
• fol. 31r — Illuminated heading, f. 31r
• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 35r — Diagram, f. 35r
• fol. 35v — Diagram, f. 35v
• fol. 36r — Diagram, f. 36r
• fol. 36v — Diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37r — Diagram, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Illuminated heading, f. 37v
• fol. 38r — Table, f. 38r
• fol. 38v — Table, f. 38v
• fol. 43r — Table, f. 43r
• fol. 53r — Table, f. 53r
• fol. 54r — Table, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Table, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Table, f. 55r
• fol. 55v — Table, f. 55v
• fol. 56r — Table, f. 56r
• fol. 56v — Table, f. 56v
• fol. 57r — Table, f. 57r
• fol. 57v — Table, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Table, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Table, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Table, f. 59r
• fol. 59v — Table, f. 59v