Author
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī
Publication Date
3 Friday I 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2361, ff 238v-240r
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
3 Friday I 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
A compendium of extracts from the preface and introduction to the
Kitāb al-Mūsīqī al-Kabīr
(The Book of the Great Musician), a major treatise on music by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābi, c. 870-950).
The present text includes discussions of the division of music into practical and theoretical, and of the mathematical aspects of relationships between notes.
The text was completed in Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) on 3 Jumādá I 1073/14 December 1662 by the scribe Sayyid Abū Muḥammad ibn Sayyid Fatḥ Muḥammad Samānī (Sayyid Abu Muhammad bin Sayyid Fath Muhammad Sakin Samānī), and was personally collated by the commissioner and owner of the volume, Diyānat Khān, on 22 Rajab 1073/2 March 1663 in Lahore.
Begins (f. 238v, line 10):
We should now begin in the first book and say that every theoretical industry includes principles and what comes after the principles
Ends (f. 240r, lines 15-16):
The ratio of nine to one-eighth is the remaining ratio, and that is the ratio of each and one-eighth of each, and this is all that is needed
In this industry of numbers...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 240r, lines 16-23):
...The book was completed (!) on the first Friday of the month of Hamid (!) in the year 1073
In the seat of the Caliphate, Shah Jahanabad, of Qubad bin Abdul Jalil
Badakhshi, nicknamed Diantkhan, in poor script
Sayyed Abu Muhammad bin Sayyed Fatah Muhammad
A resident named me
I originally met him and I was Qubad bin Abdul Jalil Al Harithi
The twenty-second of Rajab in the year 1073
In the town of Lahore
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Farmer, Henry George,
The Sources of Arabian Music. An Annotated Bibliography of Arabic Manuscripts which Deal with the Theory, Practice, and History of Arabian Music
, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965), No. 160, p. 28
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, XII, p. 561
Shiloah, Amnon,
The Theory of Music in Arabic Writings (c. 900-1900): Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in Libraries of Europe and the U.S.A
. (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1979), pp. 107-08
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad,
Kitāb al-mūsīqá
al-kabīr
, ed. by Ghaṭtās ʻAbd al-Malik Khashabah (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Kātib al-ʻArabi li-l-Ṭibāʻah wa-l-Nashr, 1967)
Translation:
D’Erlanger, Baron Rodolphe,
La musique arabe
, Vols I and II (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1930)
