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[Risālah fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī] [رسالة في علم الموسيقي] Shirwānī, Fatḥ Allāh شرواني، فتح الله [175v] (15/103)
The record is made up of Ff. 168v-219v. It was created in 27 Rabīʻ II 1073. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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An extensive treatise on music theory, also known as the Majallah fī-l-mūsīqī (مجلة في الموسيقي). It is comprised of two parts (قسم) subdivided into chapters (فصل), and is accompanied by numerous tables and diagrams. In a versified preface the treatise is dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad ibn Murād (Mehmet II 'The Conqueror', ruled 1444-46 and 1451-81; f. 169r, line 17).
This text is attributed to Fatḥ Allāh al-Shirwānī (فتح الله الشرواني, d. 1486) based on its similarity to Istanbul Topkapı Sarayı, Ahmet III, 3449. The present recension is an expanded version of the latter, also incorporating material from the work of ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Ghaybī al-Marāghī (عبد القادر بن غيبي المراغي, d. 1435) but lacking a section of text from the middle of the preface to the end of the introduction (ff. 169v-170r).
The author cites the Kitāb al-Shifā’ (كتاب الشفاء) of Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037); the Kitāb al-Adwār (كتاب الأدوار) and al-Risālah al-Sharafīyah (الرسالة الشرفية) of Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف الأرموي, d. 1294); and the latter's student Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī (قطب الدين الشيرازي, d. 1311).
The present copy was completed on 28 Rabīʻ II 1073/10 Dec 1662 and collated with the exemplar on 9 Rajab 1073/17 February 1663, in the vicinity of Lahore (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 219v, transcribed below).
Contents:
- Preface (incomplete, ff. 168v-169v);
- Introduction (incomplete): on definitions of music and aspects of the musical sciences (ff. 170r-172r);
- Part One: on Composition (القسم الأول في التأليف, ff. 172r-202r) in twelve chapters;
- Part Two: on Rhythm (القسم الثاني في الإيقاع, ff. 202r-215r) in three chapters;
- Conclusion (الخاتمة, ff. 215r-219v).
Begins (f. 168v, lines 1-2 and 6-7):
الحمد لله الذي فضلنا على كثير من عباده المؤمنين وآتانا من كل شيء أن هذا هو
الفضل المبين...
...أما بعد فإني ايها المتوخي في مسارح الأنظار ما يروقك
حلاوته المتحري في مطارع الأفكار ما يشوقك طلاوته...
Ends (f. 219v, line 5):
...فهذا آخر ما أردت إيراده في هذا المجلة والحمد لله أولًا و آخرًا
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 219v, lines 5-10):
...تمت الرسالة
في يوم شنبه ٢٧ شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٧٣
در شاه جهانآباد وفرغت عن مقابلتها بالأصل
٩ رجب سنة ١٠٧٣ في حوالي لاهور وأنا قباد
بن عبد الجليل المخاطب بديانتخان
تم تم تم تم
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