Author
Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī
Publication Date
13 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 33r-68r
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x000007
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13 Friday I 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Anonymous commentary on the preceding work in this volume, the
Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī
(The Book of Roles in the Science of Music), by Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī (Safi al-Din Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yusuf al-Armawī, d. 1294). Brief lemmata from the text are preceded by
qāla
(قال, 'He said:') and followed by the author's commentary introduced by
aqūlu
(I say, 'I say:'). The text is illustrated with tables and diagrams (some unfinished) accompanying the original text of the
Kitāb al-adwār
. The only other known copy of this text is British Library Add MS 7471, ff. 41v-92r.
After an introduction dealing with sciences in general, the commentator gives the passages of Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābi; ca 870-950) on sound quoted by al-Urmawī in the latter's second musical treatise,
al-Risālah al-Sharafīyah
(الرسالة الشرفية), al-Urmawī's criticisms of these, and his own responses to these criticisms.
Copied in Shahjahānābād (Delhi) by the scribe Sayyid Abū Muḥammad ibn Sayyid Fatḥ Muḥammad Samānī (Sayyid Abu Muhammad bin Sayyid Fath Muhammad Samānī) on 13 Jumādá I 1073/24 December 1662 and collated in Kashmir on 19 Muḥarram 1074/23 August 1663 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f.68r, transcribed below).
Contents:
Introduction (ff. 33v-34v);
[Section One]: A note is sound prolonged, etc..., ff. 34v-37v);
[Section Two]: The notes upon which a melody is built...
Section Three: The Interval Ratio
Section Four: The Necessitating Causes of Dissonance (الفصل الرابع في الأسباب الموجبة للتنافر, ff. 45r-45v);
Section Five: On Consonant Harmony الفصل الخامس في التأليف الملائم), ff. 45v-49v);
[Section Six]: These are the Six Scales... (وهذه الدوائر الستة..., ff. 49v-52v);
Section Seven: The Arrangement of Two Strings (الفصل السابع في حكم الوترين, ff. 52v-53v);
Section Eight: Discussion of the ‘Ūd, Tuning its Strings, and Deriving Scales from Them.
Section Nine: The Names of the Scales (ff. 54r-57r);
Section Ten: Tone Sharing of the Scales, ff. 57r-58r;
Section Eleven: Transposed Cycles (الفصل الحادي عشر في طبقات الأدوار, ff. 58r-58v);
Section Twelve: Scordatura (Chapter XII Unusual Confusion, ff. 58v-60r);
Section Thirteen: Rhythm (الفصل الثالث عشر في الإيقاع, ff. 60r-67r);
Section Fourteen: Influence of the Modes (f. 67r);
Section Fifteen (Chapter Fifteen, f. 67r).
Diagrams and Tables:
Diagram showing intervals within an octave (f. 41r);
Diagram showing intervals within two octaves (f. 42r);
Table of the eighty-four tetrachord and pentachord species combinations (ff. 47v-48r);
Circular diagrams (unfinished) showing the number of consonant intervals within modes (ff. 50v-51v);
Diagrams depicting rhythmic cycles (ff. 64v-66r).
Beginnings (f. 33v, lines 2-4):
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and blessings be upon our master Muhammad and his good and pure family, he said, and his rank I say
Before delving into the purpose, one must know that every science has a subject, principles, issues, and the subject of every science
What are his symptoms looking for...
Ends (f. 68r, lines 13-15):
...This is the last thing we wanted to clarify this message, and praise be to God with endless praise
لأعداده ولا انقضاء لأمداده والصلوة والسلام على المصطفين من عباده وخصوصًا
Upon Muhammad, his infallible family, and his children, and may God’s prayers and peace be upon Muhammad and his entire good and pure family.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 68r, lines 16-24):
This explanation of the roles was written with the care of God the Mighty King
On Monday the 13th of Jumada al-Awwal
In the year 1073 in the seat of the Caliphate, Shah Jehanabad
By Shah Qubad Abdul Jalil Badakhshi
Nicknamed Diantkhan
Written by Fakir Syed Abu Muhammad
Bin Sayed Fath Muhammad
He called me
She was originally interviewed on Thursday 19 Muharram 1074 in Kashmir
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, IV, 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. 418-19
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Ghrab, Anas, 'Commentaire anonyme du Kitab al-Adwār: Édition critique, traduction et présentation des lectures arabes de l'oeuvre de Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Paris Sorbonne, 2009)
