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

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Author

Codex

Collection

Repository

Folios

145b-173b

Title written as

الرسالة الفتحيّة

Copied

1174H/1760J

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

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384114

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. 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).