diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/csound-manual/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/csound-manual/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f82ec7a4ea13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/csound-manual/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ 
+  stdenv, fetchurl, docbook_xsl,
+  docbook_xml_dtd_45, python, pygments, 
+  libxslt 
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "6.12.0";
+  name = "csound-manual-${version}";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/csound/manual/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1v1scp468rnfbcajnp020kdj8zigimc2mbcwzxxqi8sf8paccdrp";
+  };
+
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace manual.xml \
+      --replace "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" \
+                "${docbook_xml_dtd_45}/xml/dtd/docbook/docbookx.dtd"
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ libxslt.bin ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ docbook_xsl python pygments ];
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    make XSL_BASE_PATH=${docbook_xsl}/share/xml/docbook-xsl html-dist
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/doc/csound
+    cp -r ./html $out/share/doc/csound
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "The Csound Canonical Reference Manual";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/csound/manual";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.fdl12Plus;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.hlolli ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1c382b67e31c..c0af19845399 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16455,6 +16455,11 @@ in
     fluidsynth = fluidsynth_1;
   };
 
+  csound-manual = callPackage ../applications/audio/csound/csound-manual {
+    python = python27;
+    pygments = python27Packages.pygments;
+  };
+
   csound-qt = callPackage ../applications/audio/csound/csound-qt {
     python = python27;
     qmake = qt59.qmake;