Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá; كتاب الادوار في الموسيقى

Alternate Title:

Adwār fī al-mūsīqá

Contributor:

Mawṣilī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn al-Mūsīqī, active 1692 (scribe)

Name:

Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1692

Description:

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.

Language:

Arabic

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.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs294.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Digital; Manuscripts, 17th century; codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; treatises; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

26 leaves : paper, illustrations; 294 x 200 (253 x 160) mm bound to 300 x 206 mm

Geographic Subject:

Arab countries

Rights:

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

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.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 294

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)