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A commentary on al-Risālah al-fatḥīyah, a treatise on astronomy by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī.
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- Publisher
- Jumādá al-Thānī 1181 [October 1767]
- People
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- Author
- Mīrim Chalabī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, 1475-1524 or 1525
- ميرم چلبي، محمود بن محمد، 1475-1524 or 1525
- Related Name
- ازهري، محمد عياد، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 507H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A commentary on al-Risālah al-fatḥīyah, a treatise on astronomy by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- شرح فتحية / لميرم چلبي.
- Transliterated Title
- Sharḥ Fatḥīyah / li-Mīrim Chalabī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 507H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3j333d51f
- Publisher
- Jumādá al-Thānī 1181 [October 1767]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1767
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 121 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 220 x 162 (167 x 98) mm bound to 219 x 170 mm.
- Provenance
- Signature of Muḥammad Asʻad (prelim. leaf). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 990.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 379.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2504⁵.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from lower edge of text block.
- Marginal notes and glosses. Listing of the chapters on folio 1a. Contains diagrams throughout text, and tables following the colophon (fols. 119b-121b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 121 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (text: three crescents; endpapers only: animal) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
- Origin: According to colophon copied end of Jumādá al-Thānī 1181 by Muḥammad ʻAyyād al-Shāfiʻī al-Azharī (fol. ).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات والارض حمدا متجاوزا عن احاطة دائرة الطول والعرض ... وبعد فلا اقسم برب المشارق والمغارب انى كنت في زمان ...
- Colophon: وقد تم رقم هذه النسخة على يد افقر العباد الى مولاه الغني محمد عياد الشافعي الازهري غفر الله له ولوالديه ولا خوانه ومشايخه ومحبيه والحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده في اخر جمادى الثاني سنة 1181 الف ومائة وواحد وثمانين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم امين امين تم
- Binding Note
- Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 260
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/136d6b66-c48d-47bd-8c31-1e6fb75bcc1e/manifest