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al-Risālah al-Fatḥiyyah (al-Qūshjī)_Istanbul_Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Library_Rare Manuscripts Collection (ITU)_7094

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Author

Codex

Folios

1a-42b

Copyist

Lines per page

17

Notes

"The copy date given in the colophon is 1124/1712-13, but it must be a scribal error, because Ḥusayn Maṣdariyajī-zāda worked in the engineering school in the first half of the nineteenth century. Thus, the copy date might be 1224/1809- 10." (See reference: Umut, pp. 182-83).

Colophon

قد وقع الفراغ عن تنميق هذه [ال]رسالة على يد أضعف العباد حسين بمصدريه جي زاده خليفۀ أوّل مهندسخانۀ همايون لسنة أربعة وعشرين بعد المائة وألف من هجرة من له العزّ والشرف تمّ م.

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517554

Digitalization

References

Umut, Hasan. 2019. “Theoretical Astronomy in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: ʿAlī Al-Qūshjī’s Al-Risāla Al-Fatḥiyya”. Institute of Islamic Studies. Montreal, Quebec: McGill University.

Pp. 182-83.