MS. Marsh 521 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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4 works by 2 authors on the subject of Music

1. fols. 1v-33v
Author: Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1216-1294
Title: Kitāb al-Adwār
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 495
[UAM. 1026 (1) [Farmer 10]].
2. ff. 35v-118v
Author: Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1216-1294
Title: al-Risālah al-Sharafīyah fī al-nisab al-taʼlīfīyah
Title: Kitāb al-Mūsīqī
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 495
[Uri Arab. 1026 (2) with corrig. Nicoll p. 606 [Farmer 8]].
3. ff. 120r-158r
Author: Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1216-1294
Title: Kitāb al-Adwār

With added designs of instruments

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 495
[UAM. 1026 (3); Farmer 9]
4. ff. 159r-170v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Risālah fī ʻilm [ṣināʻat] al-mūsīqī
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 457
[UAM. 1026 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; Farmer 5]

Physical Description

Form: codex
33 fols. 84 ff. 39 ff. 12 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. 1333 CE 1333 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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