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Subject(s)

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad d. 1474 or 5.—Risālah dar hayʼat [Browse]
• قوشجي، علي بن محمد، 1474 or 5.—رساله در هيئت [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, d. 1474 or 5. Risālah dar hayʼat. [Browse]
• قوشجي، علي بن محمد، 1474 or 5. رساله در هيئت. [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on the Risālah dar hayʼat, a treatise on astronomy by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qushjī (d. 879/1474 or 5).

Notes

• Title by a later hand from fol. 1a.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Original text overlined in red. Catchwords. Spaces left for diagrams but not filled in. Light staining; first two leaves repaired in margins. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed on 10 Jumādá II 1110 H [14 December 1698] (fol. 126b).
• Incipit: همايون نامه كه قرين بنام واجب الاعضام پادشاهى بود ... وبعد مقيم زاوىۀ خاكسارى ومحاط دايرۀ بى اعتبارى محمد المدعو بمصلح الدين اللارى الانصارى ... قوله اين كتاب حاضر در ذهن وبعضى توهم كرده اند كه اين كتاب اشاراتست

Binding note

Red leather with black leather corners and spine.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamps on fol. 2a, including that of Muḥammad al-Mūsawī al-Jazāʼirī. Note of sale on fol. 126b.

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 77 (commentary b)

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ-i Fārsī-i hayʼat
• شرح فارسى هيئت

OCLC

795711454

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