Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān.
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān.
رساله توضيح الالحان - Date:
- between 1600 and 1699?
- Description:
- Treatise on music or melody, adapted by the Persian scribe Ruhbānī from a treatise written for the Sultan Maḥmūd of the Bahamanids, a Deccani dynasty. The final pages in Hindi use Sanskrit terms and include a discussion of the female personification of music and aspects of Rāgamālās.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian
Manuscripts, 17th century
Manuscripts, Digital
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Treatises
Music--Early works to 1800
Music theory--India--Early works to 1800 - Geographic region:
- Iran
- Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 18 Oct. 2001, lot 42, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Extent:
- Written in 9 long lines; text block outlined.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 425: Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- Oversize LJS 425
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World