Author
turns to weep
Publication Date
19th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 9649, ff 6v-10v
Record ID
vdc_100023512842.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
19th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise on the construction of a pneumatic pipe organ (pneumatic pipe organ; lit. 'reed-pipe organ'). The instrument is said to produce all manner of wondrous sounds, which cause their listeners by turns to weep, fall asleep at once, rejoice and dance, and lose their senses (f. 6v, lines 3-6, transcribed below).
A diagram of the organ appears on f. 10v.
Begins (f. 6v, lines 2-6):
This is another letter to Maurice
The flute organ combines all these wondrous sounds
That is, he hears you crying strangely and intensely, or he hears you cry loudly
Its owner sleeps over the place and hears you singing and dancing and he hears you
A voice that facilitates and goes with the mind...
Ends (f. 10r, lines 5-12):
... We represented this machine
According to the positions that have been installed in a person, who is better?
Faraj sound instruments and wanted it with a gentle mind and sound with all
A voice he wants from all the languages of all animals on land
And the sea and no one can control the mood of these complex machines
In humans, the sound comes out in a similar way
We described nothing but the machine described
Know that
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Edition:
Cheikho, Louis, 'Thalāth maqālāt ‘arabīyah fī al-ālāt al-munaghghimah',
Al-Machriq
, 9, (1906), 23-26
Translation:
Farmer, Henry George,
The Organ of the Ancients from Eastern Sources: Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic
(London: William Reeves, 1931), pp. 63-70
