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Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá.
كتاب الادوار في الموسيقى.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294.
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
- Standardized Title:
- Adwār
- ادوار http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82223868
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Music theory.
- Music.
- Arab countries.
- Music--Early works to 1800.
- Music theory--Arab countries--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Manuscripts, 17th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- treatises
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 26 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 294 x 200 (253 x 160) mm bound to 300 x 206 mm
- Production:
- Mawṣil, A.H. 1103 (1692)
- Other Title:
- Adwār fī al-mūsīqá
- ادوار في الموسيقى
- Language Note:
- 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.
- 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.
- OCLC:
- 824910322
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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