Analysis of An Anonymous Musical Work: Kitâbü Ke?fü'l-Hümûm ve'l-Kürab fî ?erhi Âleti't-Tarab

Abstract

Kitâbü Ke?fü'l-Hümûm ve'l-Kürab fî ?erhi Âleti't-Tarab is an anonymous work that was written in the fourteenth century in Turkish Sultanate of Egypt. Instruments are the main subjects of this Arabic manuscript work in The Museum of Topkapi Palace, Library of Ahmed III. There is information about instruments and it is written for organology. In this study, the review of the work was divided into four chapters. These chapters includes information about the manuscript, when and why written, contents and resources of the book. There has been no study about this manuscript. For this reason, we correct many misinformation in this study.