Kitāb al-kāfī fī al-mūsīqī كتاب الكافي في الموسيقي Ibn Zaylah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ابن زيلة، الحسين بن محمد
Or 2361, ff 220r-236v
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The record is made up of Ff. 220r-236v. It was created in Jumādá I 1073. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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A treatise on music by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Ibn Zaylah ( أبو منصور الحسين بن محمد بن زيلة, d. 440/1048-49), a disciple of Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). It deals with the definitions of music, notes, and their relationships; rhythm; the composition of melodies; and instruments.
The present copy was completed on the first of Jumādá I 1073/12 Dec 1662 and collated in the city of Kashmir (Srinagar), 'the heart-pleasing' (دلپذير) on 25 Muḥarram 1074/29 August 1663 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 236v, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 220r, lines 1-4):
كتاب الكافي في الموسيقي لأبي منصور بن زيلة قال الشيخ أبو منصور الحسين بن محمد بن بن (!) عمر
بن زيلة علم الموسيقي يشتمل على بحثين أحدهما البحث عن أحوال النغم من حيث يأتلف ويتنافر
والثاني البحث عن مقادير الأزمنة المتخللة بين النغم ويسمى علم الإيقاع فيحصل من هذين البحثين
معرفة تأليف اللحنى...
Ends (f. 236v, lines 6-8):
...ويرفع الأصبع عن الثقب
التي تقارب تلك النغم إلى حد يخرج منه تلك النغم التي تحتاج اليها فيوجد سائر النغم في هذه
الحيلة وهذا التدبير
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 236v, lines 8-9):
تمت الكتابة روز چهارشنبه في غرة شهر حميد (!) الأولى سنة ١٠٧٣
وتم مقابلته بالأصل ٢٥ محرم سنة ١٠٧٤ در بلدة كشمير دلپذير
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- Farmer, Henry George, The Sources of Arabian Music. An Annotated Bibliography of Arabic Manuscripts which Deal with the Theory, Practice, and History of Arabian Music , (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965), No. 210, p. 38
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, X, p. 560-61
- 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. 228-29
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