University of Pennsylvania, LJS 399

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30126

Shelfmark:

LJS 399

Title:

Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah / انباط المياه الخفية

Author:

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

Al-Karaji WIKIDATA

Date:

A.H. 1084 (1674)

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 49 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 193 x 125 (138 x 70) mm bound to 193 x 128 mm

Note:

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).
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.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts

Seventeenth century

diagrams

Early works

Manuscripts, Digital

Hydraulic structures

Groundwater

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948256513503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania