Author
Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī
Publication Date
19 Rabīʿ II 1075 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
19 Rabīʿ II 1075 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī.
The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 246r, lines 7-9).
A diagram in red ink labeled in Persian, 'A musical circle copied from a Frankish [European] book', has been added at the end of the treatise (f. 246r).
Begins (f. 240v, lines 1-3):
The songs of Hamad Kamela Hakim Karsazi are the greatest honor that you sing at Liban Kolshan, may God bless you.
The Lord, the Lord of the angels, and the soul, is the gift of His presence, and the song of thanksgiving includes the generosity of the servant.
The melodiousness of the chickens in the grass of Fazakron from the turmeric...
Ends (f. 246r, lines 6-7):
According to Maulana Safi al-Din Abd al-Momin, who is the father of His Highness
The acquisition of Khwaja Abdullah Marwarid...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 246r, lines 7-9):
... finished on the 19th of the city
Rabi al-Thani year 1075 by Muhammad Amin in Delhi
In the direction of Shah Qabad Harithi Al Badakhshi, the addressees of Badiantkhan
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, XIII, p. 561
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1895), Item 162, IV, p. 115
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Brown [Schofield], Katherine Butler, ‘Evidence of Indo-Persian Musical Synthesis? The Tanbur and Rudra Vina in Seventeenth-century Indo-Persian Treatises’,
Journal of the Indian Musicological Society
, 36-7 (2006), pp. 89-103