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

Alternate Title:

Adwār fī al-mūsīqá

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

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

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1500

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:

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.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs235.html; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1502732; 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, 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Commentaries; Diagrams; Treatises; Stamps (Provenance)

Physical Description:

12 leaves : paper, illustrations; 235 x 165 (200 x 135) mm bound to 244 x 176 mm

Geographic Subject:

Arab countries

Rights:

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

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

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 235

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)