MS. Greaves 19 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Greaves Collection
Contents
Muḫtaṣar der ʿilm-i mūsīḳī
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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An anonymous tract on music, based, as we learn from the introduction, on the theories of Sūfīüddīn ʿAbdülmü'min, Ebū ʿAlī İbn Sīnā, Kemālüddīn Tebrīzī, and Nāṣırüddīn Fāryābī. Beginning: كتاب علم موسيقى سلطان العلما جامع العلوم الخ صوفى الدين عبد المؤمن قدّس الله سره العزيز ابو على سينا رحمة الله عليه استاد کمال الدین تبریزی نوّر الله قبره جمیعی استاذلر روحي الخ. Comp. the wording of the same introductory passage in No. 2280 below. On fol. 35 sq. there is added another short tract in Arabic, with the following Persian heading: موشح کلّی کلیات از آن مولانا خطیب زاده راست, beginning: من فرط الاشواق الخ. No date. A similar tract on music by Şeyḫ Dik Ebū-alnik is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 183.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of 7 lines per page
Hand(s)
Script: Nestaʿlīḳ
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of John Greaves, d. 1652 and Thomas Greaves, d. 1676.
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1678.
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