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Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān.
رساله توضيح الالحان.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 425
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Hindi
- Persian
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Music.
- Music--Early works to 1800.
- Music theory--India--Early works to 1800.
- Music theory.
- India.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Persian.
- Manuscripts, 17th century.
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- treatises
- Penn 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.
- Physical Description:
- 67 leaves : paper ; 320 x 198 (216 x 122) mm bound to 327 x 200 mm
- Other Title:
- Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān
- توضيح الالحان
- Place of Publication:
- [Iran], [between 1600 and 1699?]
- Language Note:
- Persian, with final pages in Hindi and using Sanskrit words.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 32 (LJS 425).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 425.
- OCLC:
- 122492315
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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