LJS 295 Kitāb-i Advār. / [کتاب ادوار]
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
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
Persian and ArabicOrigin
Copy of first work completed in A.H. 815 (1412) (f. 38v); second work completed in A.H. 1054 (1644) (f. 56v).
- 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 mmCollation
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
PaperBinding
Red leather with black leather doublure, gilt-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and gilt-stamped frame.Layout
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
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
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- Text
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 295: Kitāb-i Advār. 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/
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- Text
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- URL
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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
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