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Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah.
انباط المياه الخفية.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 399
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Arabic
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Penn Provenance:
  • Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.
  • Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
  • Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Physical Description:
49 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 193 x 125 (138 x 70) mm bound to 193 x 128 mm
Production:
A.H. 1084 (1674)
Language Note:
Arabic.
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).
  • Foliation: Paper, 49 leaves; [1-49] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
  • Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
  • Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 14 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1084 (20 Feb. 1674).
  • Two different ownership stamps (f. 13r, 48r).
Local Notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Cited in:
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 115 (LJS 399).
Cited as:
UPenn LJS 399.
OCLC:
792893356
Online:
The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

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