Manuscript Monday: LJS 425 – Risālah-i Tawḍīḥ al-alḥān. = رساله توضيح الالحان. (Video Orientation)

Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 425, a 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. Likely written in Persia, now Iran, in the 17th century.

Video orientation to LJS 425

Digital copies and a full record are available through Franklin. Record on Internet Archive with link to PDF.

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