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[Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [رسالة في خبر تأليف الألحان] Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq كندي، يعقوب بن إسحق [‎167r] (5/7)

The record is made up of Ff. 165r-168r. It was created in 17 Rabīʿ II 1073. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Unique copy of the earliest extant Arabic treatise on music, by Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873), imperfect at the beginning. It is apparently a summary of an earlier and more extensive work by al-Kindī, no longer extant, entitled Great Book on the Composition of Music (الكتاب الأعظم في التأليف; see 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), pp. 256-57). A title added above the incipit of the text calls it ‘[Extract] from the book of Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī on Composition – three folios’ (من كتاب يعقوب بن إسحاق الكندي في التأليف سه ورق).

The copy was completed on 17 Rabīʿ II 1073/29 November 1662 from a manuscript written in Damascus and dated late Shawwāl 621/November 1224, which was itself copied from another manuscript described as defective and unreliable (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 168r, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 165r, lines 1-2)

وك إلى ا كله وثمن كله وقد بينا أن فضل الذي بالخمسة على الذي بالأربعة كل وثمن كل فإذن بعد و التي هي مطلق

المثلث من ا التي هي أول دساتين المثنى هي البعد الذي بالخمسة...

Ends (f. 168r, lines 12-13):

...وهذا فيما سألت كاف كفاك الله المهم من أمر

دنياك وأخريك والحمد لله رب العالمين كملت رسالة يعقوب بن إسحاق الكندي في خبر تأليف الألحان

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 168r, lines 14-16):

وفرغنا من تحريره ١٧ شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٧٣ وكان المنقول

عنه مكتوبًا في أواخر شوال سنة ٦٢١ بمدينة دمشق

من نسخة سقيمة غير معتمدة

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[Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [رسالة في خبر تأليف الألحان] Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq كندي، يعقوب بن إسحق [‎167r] (5/7), British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 2361, ff 165r-168r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100108186148.0x00008f> [accessed 22 December 2024]

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