4to. 94 pp. Arabic text edited by Ghattas Khashaba, facsimile illustrations from original Arabic manuscript, figures, publisher’s original wrappers, copy in mint condition, new, Dar al-Kutub Wal Watha’iq al-Qawmiyya, Cairo, 1984.

Synopsis

This work is the only known document to contain an appreciable amount of information about the modal structure of the Arab art music in the eighth and ninth centuries.