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Manuscript/Mixed Material Zayn al-alḥān fī ʻilm al-taʼlīf wa-al-awzān زين الالحان في علم التأليف والاوزان / / Zayn al-iḥsān fī ʻilm al-taʼlīf wa-al-awzān

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Title

  • Zayn al-alḥān fī ʻilm al-taʼlīf wa-al-awzān

Other Title

  • زين الالحان في علم التأليف والاوزان /
  • Zayn al-iḥsān fī ʻilm al-taʼlīf wa-al-awzān

Summary

  • Fifteenth century treatise on Arab muscial theory.

Names

  • Lādhiqī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, -approximately 1494
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 14 Shaʻbān 1342, 20 March 1924

Headings

  • -  Music theory--Arab countries--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabs--Music--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Maḥmūd Ṣidqī al-Nassākh.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Egypt.
  • -  Paper; 20th century commercial cream color with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black with rubrication; various diagrams in black and red ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 448
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 18 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Charts and or diagrams in black and red on fol. 8a, 11b, 14a, 14b, 19a, 19b, 32b, 33a, 33b, 34b, 35a, 35b, 36a, 39b, 40a, 40b, 41a, 41b, 42a, 42b, 43a, 43b, 44a, 44b.
  • -  Fol. 1b-44b.
  • -  "85. IX [841] = 5.792."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-792.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله المتفرد بتأليف النغمات الشهية في ابعاد طبقات السموات العلية. المتوحد تركيب ايقاع نقرات حركتها السنية في الازمنة المتغيرة البهية.
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من نسخة في يوم الخميس 14 شعبان سنة 1342 الموافق 20 مارس سنة 1924 م نقلا عن نسخة الاصل المحفوظة بدار الكتب المصرية بنمرة 350 فنون جمالة ونسخ ذلك بقلم محمود صدقي النساخ.

Medium

  • 44 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 24.3 x 18.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT5.5 .L33 1924

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496537

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Lādhiqī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ḥamīd, -Approximately 1494, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Zayn Al-Alḥān Fī ʻilm Al-Taʼlīf Wa-Al-Awzān. 14 Shaʻbān , 20 March 1924, 1342. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496537/.

APA citation style:

Lādhiqī, M. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1342) Zayn Al-Alḥān Fī ʻilm Al-Taʼlīf Wa-Al-Awzān. 14 Shaʻbān , 20 March 1924. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496537/.

MLA citation style:

Lādhiqī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ḥamīd, -Approximately 1494, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Zayn Al-Alḥān Fī ʻilm Al-Taʼlīf Wa-Al-Awzān. 14 Shaʻbān , 20 March 1924, 1342. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496537/>.