Author
numerous tables and diagrams. In a versified preface the treatise is dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad ibn Murād
Publication Date
27 Rabīʻ II 1073 (AH)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2361, ff 168v-219v
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x000006
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
27 Rabīʻ II 1073 (AH)
Notes
An extensive treatise on music theory
Majallah fī-l-mūsīqī
(Magazine in Music). It is comprised of two parts (قسم) subdivided into chapters (فصل), and is accompanied by numerous tables and diagrams. In a versified preface the treatise is dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Muhammad ibn Murād (Mehmet II 'The Conqueror', ruled 1444-46 and 1451-81; f. 169r, line 17).
This text is attributed to Fatḥ Allāh al-Shirwānī (Fathullah al-Shirwani, d. 1486) based on its similarity to Istanbul Topkapı Sarayı, Ahmet III, Ghaybī al-Marāghī (Abd al-Qādir ibn Ghaybī al-Marāghī, d. 1435) but lacking a section of text from the middle of the preface to the end of the introduction (ff. 169v-170r).
The author cites the
Kitāb al-Shifā'
(Book of Healing) of Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (Abu Ali al-Hussein ibn Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037); the
Kitāb al-Adwār
(Book of walls) and
al-Risālah al-Sharafīyah
(الرصالة الشرفية) of Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī (Safi al-Din ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yusuf al-Urmawī, d. 1294); and the latter's student Qutb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī (Qutb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī, d. 1311).
The present copy was completed on 28 Rabīʻ II 1073/10 Dec 1662 and collated with the copy on 9 Rajab 1073/17 February 1663, in the vicinity of Lahore (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 219v, transcribed below).
Contents:
Preface (incomplete, ff. 168v-169v);
Introduction (incomplete): on definitions of music and aspects of the musical sciences (ff. 170r-172r);
Part One: on Composition (al-Qism al-Awwal fi al-Talif, ff. 172r-202r) in twelve chapters;
Part Two: on Rhythm (Second Part in Rhythm, ff. 202r-215r) in three chapters;
Conclusion (Al-Khatma, ff. 215r-219v).
Begins (f. 168v, lines 1-2 and 6-7):
Praise be to Allah, Who has blessed us with many of the worshipers of the believers and has protected us from everything that this is
الفضل المبين.
...But after I have brought you to the stage of sight, what will you do?
Refreshing confectionery in the form of ideas that you love.
Ends (f. 219v, line 5):
...After all, what brings will in this magazine and praise be to Allah first and foremost
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 219v, lines 5-10):
...The letter ended
On Saturday, 27th of Rabi' al-Thani,
in Shah Jehanabad and freedom from the original
9 Rajab Sana 1073 in the case of Lahur and Ana Qabad
Ibn 'Abd al-Jalil al-Mukhatab Badiantkhan
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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. 320, pp. 62-63
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, IX, p. 560
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), No. 239, pp. 331-34
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Facsimile edition of Topkapı Ahmet III 3449:
Shirwānī, Faṭh Allāh,
Majallah f
ī'l-mūsīqī
(
Codex
A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers.
on Music
), ed. by Eckhard Neubauer (Frankfurt: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1986)
Translation:
D’Erlanger, Baron Rodolphe, 'Traité anonyme dédié au Sultan Osmanli Muhammad II (XVeme sicle)', in
La musique arabe
, Vol. 4 (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1939), pp. 3-255
Studies:
Ghrab, Anas, 'Commentaire anonyme du Kitab al-Adwār: Edition critique, traduction et présentation des lectures arabes de l'oeuvre de Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Paris Sorbonne, 2009)
Wright, Owen, 'On the concept of a "Timurid music"',
Oriente Moderno,
76, pp. 665-81 (1996), p. 668
