Details

Subject(s)

• Music theory—Arab countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Music—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Related name

• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud or lute.

Notes

• Binding: Rebound in contemporary red leather over boards, blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and surrounding cartouches and blind-tooled frame.
• Decoration: Diagrams and rubrications in red ink throughout.
• Layout: Written in 28 long lines, with some diagrams arranged in 2 columns (for example, pages 9-12).
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item is undated; perhaps produced in the 16th century.
• Pagination: Paper, iii + 12 + iii leaves; [1-24]; sporadic modern pagination in pencil, upper right corners.
• Script: Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.
• Title from added title (f. 1r).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• Ownership stamps of an early owner (pages 1, 24).
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1998.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 30-31 (LJS 235).

Cite as

UPenn Oversize LJS 235.

Other title(s)

• Adwār fī al-mūsīqá
• ادوار في الموسيقى

OCLC

122584676

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