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Music--India

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Dar Fann-i Musiki, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 585
Scope and Contents

Five short treatises on Indian music. The first treatise may be original, the remainder probably translated from the Sanskrit.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

 Collection
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ragamala, 1842 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 437.2
Scope and Contents

Ragamala paintings are highly symbolic visual interpretations of Indian music previously envisioned in divine form by musicians and poets. They generally depict romantic and devotional situations in an aristocratic setting. The word ‘raga’ derives from the Sanskrit root – ranj – which means to tinge or to colour and evokes love, passion and beauty.

Dates: 1842 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Saṅgīta Rāga-kalpadruma, c 1842 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 437.1
Scope and Contents

Compilation of North Indian music, with Bengali notes and listing of Ragas in English.

Dates: c 1842 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تصویرات راگ مالا Taṣvīrāt-i Rāg-mālā, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 114
Scope and Contents

Music: An album illuminated by thirty-four groups of figures in gouache painting in a variety of colours, attitudes, and surroundings, representing conventional symbols of Rāgs and Rāginīs (the well-known personifications of Indian pitches).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia