Kitāb jalīl fī ʻilm al-mūsīqā wa-ʻilm al-taʾlīf wa-al-khawāṣṣ min ʻulūm al-falsafah al-naẓarīyah - Fārābī
Treatise on musical theory and musical instruments, in three parts. This copy does not contain the section on the construction of the ʻūd.
3. fol. 68a-104a: Taʾlīf al-alḥān.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title on the title page is by a later hand. There is no mention of a title for the entire work in the text itself.
21 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, headings and diagrams. Glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled (9 mm.). There are some collation notes and very few marginal notes. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Note on sound on fol. 104b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals in the upper right corner of the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Inscription on title page (fol. 1a): Note on content (number of leaves and quires, and titles of the main divisions of the text) corresponding to the foliation using Arabic numerals mentioned in the physical description; mention of the number of the leaves missing in another note by a later hand. Some leaves are indeed missing as shown by the catchwords (see fol. 30b-31a) and the missing numbers in the mentioned foliation.
Notes in pencil on the margin of some pages refering to J. P. N. Land. Recherches sur l'histoire de la gamme arabe. Tiré du vol. II des Travaux de la 6e session du Congrès international des Orientalistes à Leide. Leide: E:J: Brill, 1884.
Keywords: Music theory -- Early works to 1800.; Musical instruments -- Arab countries -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 15th century