Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 220B

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DS ID:

DS29358

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 220B

Title:

Kitāb jalīl fī ʻilm al-mūsīqā wa-ʻilm al-taʾlīf wa-al-khawāṣṣ min ʻulūm al-falsafah al-naẓarīyah / كتاب جليل في علم الموسيقا وعلم التأليف والخواص من علوم الفلسفة النظرية

Author:

Fārābī / فارابي

Farabi WIKIDATA

Date:

1461].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper ; 262 x 177 (177 x 117) mm. bound to 265 x 187 mm

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 104 leaves : paper ; 262 x 177 (177 x 117) mm. bound to 265 x 187 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title on the title page is by a later hand. There is no mention of a title for the entire work in the text itself.
21 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, headings and diagrams. Glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled (9 mm.). There are some collation notes and very few marginal notes. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Note on sound on fol. 104b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals in the upper right corner of the...
Inscription on title page (fol. 1a): Note on content (number of leaves and quires, and titles of the main divisions of the text) corresponding to the foliation using Arabic numerals mentioned in the physical description; mention of the number of the leaves missing in another note by a later hand. Some leaves are indeed missing as shown by the catchwords (see fol. 30b-31a) and the missing...
Notes in pencil on the margin of some pages refering to J. P. N. Land. Recherches sur l'histoire de la gamme arabe. Tiré du vol. II des Travaux de la 6e session du Congrès international des Orientalistes à Leide. Leide: E:J: Brill, 1884.
Copied on 14 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 866 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Isḥāq [---?] (colophon, fol. 104a).
Ownership statements on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fifteenth century

Musical instruments

Arab countries

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Music theory

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947077563506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ee1cdc5b-cbe8-4ff8-9923-3b81d2752d21/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University