Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān; رساله توضيح الالحان

Alternate Title:

Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān

Contributor:

Ruhbānī (scribe); Maḥmūd, Sult̤ān (associated name)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1600

Description:

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.

Language:

Persian

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.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs425.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000317

Subject:

Music; Music -- Early works to 1800; Music theory -- India -- Early works to 1800; Music theory

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from introduction (p. 3).; Pagination: Paper, i + 67 + ii; [1-134], modern pagination in pencil, lower center.; Layout: Written in 9 long lines; text block outlined.; Script: Written in clear nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.; 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.; Binding: Contemporary Safavid silk with a repeating pattern of a female musician, rebacked in morocco; gold and silver painted floral doublure.; Origin: Likely written in Persia, now Iran, in the 17th century.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian, with final pages in Hindi and using Sanskrit words.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 425

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)