Author
Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Publication Date
17 Rabīʿ II 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2361, ff 165r-168r
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x00000a
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
17 Rabīʿ II 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Unique copy of the earliest extant Arabic treatise on music, by Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindī; d. ca 873), imperfect at the beginning. It is apparently a summary of an earlier and more extensive work by al-Kindī, no longer extant, entitled
Great Book on the Composition of Music
(الكتاب الأعظم في التأليف; see 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 Publishing House, 1979), pp. 256-57). A title added above the incipit of the text calls it ‘[Extract]
from the book of Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī on Composition – three folios’
(من كتاب يعقوب بن إسحاق الكندي في التأليف سه ورق).
The copy was completed on 17 Rabīʿ II 1073/29 November 1662 from a manuscript written in Damascus and dated late Shawwāl 621/November 1224, which was itself copied from another manuscript described as defective and unreliable (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 168r, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 165r, lines 1-2)
And to whom all and all wealth reached between us that the virtue of the fifth over the fourth of all and the wealth of all is absolute
المثلث من ا التي هي أول دساتين المثنى هي البعد الذي بالخمسة...
Ends (f. 168r, lines 12-13):
...وهذا فيما سألت كاف كفاك الله المهم من أمر
The world and the Hereafter and praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 168r, lines 14-16):
وفرغنا من تحريره ١٧ شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٧٣ وكان المنقول
عنه مكتوبًا في أواخر شوال سنة ٦٢١ بمدينة دمشق
I have a non-certified version
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. 53, p. 9
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, VIII, p. 559
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. 256-57
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
Shawqī, Yūsuf,
Risālat al-kindi fī khubr sināʻat al-taʼlīf
(al-Qāhirah: Maṭba‘at Dār al-Kutub, 1969)
Yūsuf, Zakarīyā, 'Risālah fi khubr ṣināʻat al-taʼlīf',
Muʼallafāt al-kindī al-musīqīyah
, ed. Zakarīyā Yūsuf (Baghdad: Maṭba‘at shafīq, 1962), pp. 45–66
Translation and facsimile:
Cowl, C., ‘The Risāla fī Ḫubr Tāʼlīf al-’Alhān of Ja’qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (790–874)’,
The Consort
, 23 (1966), pp. 129–66
Study and partial edition:
Wright, Owen, 'Al-Kindi's Braid',
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, 69 (2006), pp. 1-32
