Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي

Content

A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى).

The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 246r, lines 7-9).

A diagram in red ink labelled in Persian, 'A musical circle copied from a Frankish [European] book' (دايره موسيقى از كتاب فرنگى نوشته شد), has been added at the end of the treatise (f. 246r).

Begins (f. 240v, lines 1-3):

نغمات حمد كامله حكيم كار سازى را اعظم شأنه كه ثنا خوانى عند ليبان كلشن سبوح قدوس

ربنا و رب الملائكة و الروح بهواى لقائى اوست و آوازه شكر شامله كريم بنده نوازى

را كه خوش الحانى مرغان چمن فازكرونى از كركم...

Ends (f. 246r, lines 6-7):

بطريقه مولانا صفي الدين عبد المؤمن كه ايشان والد جناب فضايلمآب كمالات

اكتساب خواجه عبد الله مرواريد اند...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 246r, lines 7-9):

...تمام شد بتاريخ نوزدهم شهر

ربيع الثاني سنة ١٠٧٥ بدست محمد أمين در دهلي

بجهت شاه قباد حارثي البدخشي المخاطب بديانتخان

Extent and format

Ff. 240v-246r

It is part of

A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian

556 images

Ref: Or 2361

Written in

Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 2361, ff 240v-246r

History of this record

Date(s)

19 Rabīʿ II 1075 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

• Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, XIII, p. 561
• Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1895), Item 162, IV, p. 115

Select Bibliography

Study:

Brown [Schofield], Katherine Butler, ‘Evidence of Indo-Persian Musical Synthesis? The Tanbur and Rudra Vina in Seventeenth-century Indo-Persian Treatises’, Journal of the Indian Musicological Society , 36-7 (2006), pp. 89-103

Share this record

• Share on twitter
• Share on facebook

Cite this record in your research

Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 2361, ff 240v-246r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x000002> [accessed 5 July 2026]

Link to this record

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100131607039.0x000002

IIIF details

This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100035587376.0x000001/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images

Copyright: How to use this content