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Title

Facsimile of LJS 295, Risālah al-sharafīyah fī al-nisab al-taʼlīfīyah

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

8-2-2015

Files

Comments

Treatise on the theory of music whose title translates as the Sharafian treatise on musical proportion. Written in 5 discourses with subjects including acoustics and sound, intervals, consonance and dissonance, the Arabic transcription of the 15 Greek names for notes, rhythm, and performance. The treatise is followed by an anonymous commentary (f. 41-56).

Keywords

Music--Early works to 1800, Music theory--Arab countries--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Treatises, Manuscripts Persian--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5057421

Link to Video

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/7/

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs295.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 295, Risālah al-sharafīyah fī al-nisab al-taʼlīfīyah" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 142.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/142