Author
Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294.
Publication Date
[1915]
Subject
Music, Arabic., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([67] p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002601800
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Treatise on rhythm, playing the lute, singing, and the mathematical characteristics of music; in 11 faṣls. | Contains geometrical diagrams of lute strings and a drawing of a lute showing the sound characteristics of its body and fretboard.
Text and tables rubricated; foliation in alphabetical numbers in hand of copyist; kurrāsahs numbered 1-3.
Date in colophon: wa-yudhkar fī al-nuskhah al-aṣlīyah innahā thānī nuskhah nuqilat min nuskhah bi-khaṭṭ ʻAbd Allāh al-Sahrawardī muʼarrikhuhu bi-tārīkh awwal Jumād al-awwal sanat 727 [i.e. 25 March 1327] wa-taḥarrarat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah fī yawm sittat Rabīʻ al-awwal sanat 1333 [i.e. 22 January 1915].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.