Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 295: Kitāb-i Advār. University of Pennsylvania 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/. 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/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 295 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 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). Persian and Arabic Kitāb-i Advār. [کتاب ادوار] Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف، former owner Schoenberg, Lawrence J 1v Kitāb-i Advār, f. 1v 41r [Commentary], f. 41r

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

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.

 Written in 15 long lines (f. 1-38); border-ruled; second work written in 14 long lines (f. 41-56). Written in nastaʻlīq script by 2 hands (treatise f. 1-38, f. 41-56), with treatise headings in thuluth script. 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. Illuminated headpiece, f. 1v Illuminated heading, f. 5r Diagram, f. 6r Diagram, f. 6v Illuminated heading, f. 8r Illuminated heading, f. 8v Illuminated heading, f. 10v Diagram, f. 12r Diagram, f. 12v Diagram, f. 13r Diagram, f. 13v Diagram, f. 14r Diagram, f. 14v Table, f. 15r Table, f. 15v Table, f. 16r Table, f. 16v Table, f. 17r Table, f. 17v Table, f. 18r Diagram, f. 18v Illuminated heading, f. 19r Illuminated heading, f. 19v Illuminated heading, f. 20r Table, f. 20r Table, f. 21v Table, f. 22r Table, f. 22v Table, f. 23r Table, f. 23v Table, f. 24r Table, f. 24v Table, f. 25r Table, f. 25v Table, f. 26r Table, f. 26v Table, f. 27r Table, f. 27v Table, f. 28v Illuminated heading, f. 28v Diagram, f. 29r Illuminated heading, f. 29v Illuminated heading, f. 30r Table, f. 30r Illuminated heading, f. 31r Diagram, f. 32r Diagram, f. 35r Diagram, f. 35v Diagram, f. 36r Diagram, f. 36v Diagram, f. 37r Illuminated heading, f. 37v Table, f. 38r Table, f. 38v Table, f. 43r Table, f. 53r Table, f. 54r Table, f. 54v Table, f. 55r Table, f. 55v Table, f. 56r Table, f. 56v Table, f. 57r Table, f. 57v Table, f. 58r Table, f. 58v Table, f. 59r Table, f. 59v

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

Copy of first work completed in A.H. 815 (1412) (f. 38v); second work completed in A.H. 1054 (1644) (f. 56v).

A.H. 815 (1412) Iran? 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. 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 Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, 15th century Manuscripts, 17th century Manuscripts, Renaissance Codices (bound manuscripts) Compilation manuscripts Commentaries Diagrams Treatises Stamps (Provenance)