Notes on Avicenna’s Mūsīqī-yi Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾ ī and its manuscript tradition

Abstract

This paper partially outlines the manuscript tradition that preserves the Music section of the only Peripatetic summa written by Avicenna in Persian (Pārsī-darī) , known as Dāniš-nāma-yi ʿAlāʾī (Dāneš-nāme-ye ʿAlāʾī, henceforth DN).