Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah.
انباط المياه الخفية

Authors

• Karajī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, -approximately 1016
  كرجي، محمد بن الحسين،

Call number

LJS 399
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948256513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792893356
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4825651 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs399.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1084 (1674)

Summary

17th-century copy of 11th-century treatise on hydraulics and groundwater supply, including information on the construction of subterranean tunnels for irrigation systems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Two different ownership stamps (f. 13r, 48r).
   

Extent

49 leaves : 193 x 125 (138 x 70) mm. bound to 193 x 128 mm

Foliation

Paper, 49 leaves; [1-49] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Black leather with no boards; blind-stamped central mandorla with four pendants, two on each axis and faint blind-tooled frame; brown leather doublure and spine.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

14 diagrams in black and red ink (f. 23v-24r, 26r, 29r, 32r, 33r, 35r, 36v, 37v, 40v, 42r, 43r, 45v) ; rubrications and overlining in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Groundwater--Early works to 1800
• Hydraulic structures--Early works to 1800
• Groundwater
• Hydraulic structures

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, Digital
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Early works

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 33r — Diagram, f. 33r
• fol. 35r — Diagram, f. 35r
• fol. 36v — Diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Diagram, f. 37v
• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v