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Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá. = كتاب الادوار في الموسيقى.

Author/Creator:
Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294.
ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف، approximately 1216-1294.
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)
Status/Location:
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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