Details

Standardized Title:

Adwār
ادوار http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82223868

Other Title:

Adwār fī al-mūsīqá
ادوار في الموسيقى

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Stamps (Provenance)

Language:

Arabic.

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 added title (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, iii + 12 + iii leaves; [1-24]; sporadic modern pagination in pencil, upper right corners.
Layout: Written in 28 long lines, with some diagrams arranged in 2 columns (for example, p. 9-12).
Script: Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Diagrams and rubrications in red ink throughout.
Binding: Rebound in contemporary red leather over boards, blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and surrounding cartouches and blind-tooled frame.
Origin: The item is undated; perhaps produced in the 16th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Ownership stamps of an early owner (p. 1, 24).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 30-31 (LJS 235).

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize LJS 235.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

122584676

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page