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Risālah dar hayʼat. [Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat]

1700 · [Turkey?] · 1 picture

A Persian manuscript commentary on ʻAlī Qūshjī's treatise on astronomy (Risālah fī al-hayʼah), copied around 1700, probably in Ottoman Turkey, for scholars and students of mathematical astronomy. Pages carry nastaʻlīq text in black and red around inked diagrams of circles, shaded half-dark spheres showing lunar phases and eclipses, and a title page stamped with round ownership seals.

Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475. Risālah fī al-hayʼah · Astronomy -- Islamic countries -- Early works to 1800 · Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800 · Manuscripts, Persian

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