Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئة Qūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي بن محمد
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The record is made up of Ff. 1v-46r. It was created in 1646-47. It was written in Persian. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474).
The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v and 44r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله رب العالمين و حمد الشاكرين وصلوة والسلم
على خير خلقه محمد وآله آجمعين أما بعد اين كتابيست مشتمل بر مقدمه
ودو مقاله ...
Ends (f. 46r, lines 2-4):
... وبسيت ودو برابر
قطر زمين است واصغر توابت مرصوده بسيت وسه
برابر جرم زمين تست والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 46r, lines 5-6):
تمت الرسالة بعون الملك
الجليل
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- Ff. 1v-46r
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Studies:
Fazlıoğlu, İhsan, 'Qūshjī: Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Qushči-zāde', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 946-48
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin et al., Osmanl ı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi (History of Astronomy Literature during the Ottoman Period) , vol. 1, pp. 27–38 (no. 11) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 1997)
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin et al., Osmanlı Matematik Literatürü Tarihi (History of Mathematical Literature during the Ottoman Period) , vol. 1, pp. 20–27 (no. 3) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 1999)
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