Author
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Publication Date
Friday II 1073 (AH)
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2361, ff 157r-164r
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x00000b
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Friday II 1073 (AH)
Notes
Section on music from the Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (Ala al-Dawla Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar, reg. ca 1008-1041).
The text of this copy was completed on 11 Jumādá II 1073/21 January 1663, in the town of Anbālah, (Ambala) 'during the time of the procession towards Lahore' (see f. 161v, lines 24-25, transcribed below).
The text is followed by three folios containing tables of musical modes and intervals (ff. 162r-164r).
Beginnings (f. 157r, lines 1-3):
Khawaja Rais Abu Ali Al-Hussein Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, may God have mercy on him, may God have mercy on him, industry, science, music
Du part ast kami composition of ast and subject or melodyhast and warning case ishaan agreement and na agreement
Ishaan Nikah Kanand...
Ends (f. 161v, lines 23-24):
...and set up a break in the rarest mode of the Nyquist gender and replace different card types with the opposite
nicotine pod
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 161v, lines 24-25):
...Tamam Shadd music of the book Danish Nameh Alaei Yazdhum Jumada II in the year 1073
Around the Kasbah of Inbala, my days are filled with high banners heading to Lahore Bud
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1895) Item 162, III, p. 115
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, VII, p. 559
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Translation:
The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā). A Critical Translation-Commentary and Analysis of the Fundamental Arguments in Avicenna's 'Metaphysica' in the 'Dānish Nāma-i ʿAlāʾī' ('The Book of Scientific Knowledge')
, Parviz Morewedge (ed.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973)
Avicenna, Le Livre de science, translated by Mohammad Achena and Henri Massé, 2 vols., 2nd edition (Paris: Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1986)
Edition:
Bīnish, Taqī, ‘Resāle-ye Nakhust: Mūsīqī-yi Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī',
Sih risāle-ye fārsī dar mūsīqī
(Tehran: Iran University Press, 1992), pp. 3-30.