Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá. = كتاب الادوار في الموسيقى.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
26 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 294 x 200 (253 x 160) mm bound to 300 x 206 mm - Production:
- Mawṣil, A.H. 1103 (1692)
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs294.htmlDigital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- 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, Digital.
Manuscripts, 17th century.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams.
Treatises. - 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 caption title.
Pagination: Paper, ii (modern) + 26 + ii (modern) leaves; [1-52]; modern pagination in pencil, upper right corners.
Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a naskh in black ink by Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn al-Mūsīqī al-Mawṣilī; pointed (colophon, p. 51).
Decoration: Diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.
Binding: Original (late 17th-century) red leather laid on modern leather over boards, blind-stamped; stab-sewn.
Origin: Written in Mosul, Iraq, dated 7 Dhū al-Qaʻdah A.H. 1103 (22 Jul. 1692; colophon, p. 51).
Watermarks: Bovine with horns and a split tail over the word COSTA. - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 327, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 31 (LJS 294).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 294.
- Contributor:
- Mawṣilī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn al-Mūsīqī, active 1692, scribe.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
موصلي، مسعود بن حسين الموسيقي، active 1692، scribe. - OCLC:
- 824910322
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page