al-Risālaẗ al-Fatḥiyyaẗ (al-Qūshjī)_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Arabe_2504

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al-Risālah al-Fatḥiyyah (al-Qūshjī)_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Arabe_2504

Exemplar of	al-Risālah al-Fatḥiyyah (al-Qūshjī)
Author	أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمّد القوشجي Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī
Codex	Manuscrits-Orient Arabe_2504
Collection	Manuscrits-Orient Arabe
Repository	Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)
Folios	145b-173b
Title written as	الرسالة الفتحيّة
Copied	1760 CE/ 1174 AH
Lines per page	23
Notes	According to the colophon (f. 173b), this manuscript was copied 1174 [1760-61]. Note that the explicit gives the fixed stars as 227 times the volume of the Earth (i.e., not 146 times as in other versions of the treatise).
Colophon	تم بعون اللـه تعالى وصلى اللـه على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما الى يوم الدين والحمد للـه رب العالمين سنة ١١٧۴
Incipit	الْحَمْدُ للـه الذي خلق السماوات ليتذكر في عجايبها اولو الالباب
Explicit	كعّبناهما ليظهر ان جرم هذه الكواكب مايتان وسبعة وعشورن مثلا لجرم الارض
ismi_id	384114
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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. 180-81 (no. 11).

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

P. 34.

Slane, William. 1883. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Arabes De La Bibliothèque Nationale (France). Paris: Imprimerie nationale.

P. 445 (2504.4).