University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 294

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30131

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 294

Title:

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

Adwār

Author:

Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 / ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف، approximately 1216-1294

Safi al-Din al-Urmawi WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Mawṣilī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn al-Mūsīqī, active 1692 / موصلي، مسعود بن حسين الموسيقي، active 1692،

Place:

Mawṣil

Mosul TGN

Date:

A.H. 1103 (1692)

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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.
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.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts

Seventeenth century

diagrams

Manuscripts, Digital

Music

Early works

Music theory

Arab countries

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958901763503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania