Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah; انباط المياه الخفية

Name:

Karajī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, -approximately 1016

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1674

Description:

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

Language:

Arabic

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.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs399.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 399

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)