^{page 91 note 1} See Collangettes, , “ Étude sur la musique arabe, ” Journal Asiatique, Nov.-Dec, 1904, p. 384Google Scholar. Rouanet, Jules, “ La musique arabe,” in Lavignac's Encyclopédie de la musique, v, 2679Google Scholar.

^{page 91 note 2} There is a copy at the Université St. Joseph, Beyrouth, and Père Cheikho is not sure of the date of the author, but knows that it is older than Muāqa (1800–88) and later than ‘ Abd al-Qāḍir ibn aibī (d. 1435) (Mélanges de la Faculté Orientale, vii, 285). A copy in the Preussische Staatsbibliothek (Ahlwardt, No. 5534) was copied c. 1494. The Paris copy mentioned above was purchased at Aleppo in 1673.

^{page 92 note 1} Ahlwardt, Nos. 5503 and 5531, and British Museum, Or. 2361. In the last-mentioned MS. the author quotes another of his works not mentioned in the Fihrist, Ibn al-Qifṭī or Ibn Abī Uṣaibi‘a. It is called the Kitāb al-‘azm fī ta'līf al-luḥūn, a title not unlike the treatise written for Aḥmad ibn al-Mu‘taṣim. See below.

^{page 92 note 2} See the Fihrist, 257, Ibn al-Qifṭī, 370, and Abhand. f. d. Kunde des Morgenlandes, i, 40.

^{page 92 note 3} The letters in brackets have been obliterated.

^{page 92 note 4} Ibn Abī Uṣaibi‘a, i, 210. Abhand. f. d. Kunde des Morgenlandes, i, 40. I hope to issue the musical works of Al-Kindī shortly.

^{page 93 note 1} Chardin, Sir John, Voyages en Perse (Amsterdam, 1735), iii, 158.

^{page 93 note 2} Al-Fihrist, 283. Ibn Khallikān, Biog. Diet., iii, 320.