Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah. = انباط المياه الخفية.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
49 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 193 x 125 (138 x 70) mm bound to 193 x 128 mm - Production:
- A.H. 1084 (1674)
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs399.htmlDigital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3107z - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- Kitāb Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah
كتاب انباط المياه الخفية http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98950589 - Subjects:
- Hydraulic structures.
Groundwater.
Groundwater -- Early works to 1800.
Hydraulic structures -- Early works to 1800. - Form/Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 17th century.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Early works. - Language:
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- Contributor:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- OCLC:
- 792893356
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page