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

Title

Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān.
رساله توضيح الالحان

Other related names

• Ruhbānī, scribe
  رهبانى،
• Maḥmūd, Sulṭān, associated name
  محمود،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 425
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951469233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492315
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5146923 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs425.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian, with final pages in Hindi and using Sanskrit words

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1699?

Place

Iran

Summary

Treatise on music or melody, adapted by the Persian scribe Ruhbānī from a treatise written for the Sultan Maḥmūd of the Bahamanids, a Deccani dynasty. The final pages in Hindi use Sanskrit terms and include a discussion of the female personification of music and aspects of Rāgamālās.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (p. 3).
   

Extent

67 leaves : 320 x 198 (216 x 122) mm. bound to 327 x 200 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 67 + ii; [1-134], modern pagination in pencil, lower center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary Safavid silk with a repeating pattern of a female musician, rebacked in morocco; gold and silver painted floral doublure.

Layout

Written in 9 long lines; text block outlined.

Decoration

Diagrams in red ink (p. 8, 10, 21, 23-25, 47, 50, 53, 56-58, 65, 67); later illuminated headpiece and border (p. 1); textblock border-ruled in blue, red, green, gold; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in clear nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 18 Oct. 2001, lot 42, 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--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• 1 — Illuminated border, p. 1
• 1 — Illuminated headpiece, p. 1
• 8 — Diagram, p. 8
• 9 — Diagram, p. 9
• 10 — Diagram, p. 10
• 19 — Diagram, p. 19
• 21 — Diagram, p. 21
• 23 — Diagram, p. 23
• 24 — Diagram, p. 24
• 25 — Diagram, p. 25
• 47 — Diagram, p. 47
• 50 — Diagram, p. 50
• 53 — Diagram, p. 53
• 56 — Diagram, p. 56
• 57 — Diagram, p. 57
• 58 — Diagram, p. 58
• 65 — Diagram, p. 65
• 67 — Diagram, p. 67