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

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Karajī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, -approximately 1016, author.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Kitāb Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah

كتاب انباط المياه الخفية http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98950589

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Hydraulic structures.

Groundwater.

Groundwater--Early works to 1800.

Hydraulic structures--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 17th century.

Manuscripts, Digital.

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

diagrams

Early works.

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).

Publications about:

Sanaan Bensi, Negar, "The Qanat system: a reflection on the heritage of the extraction of hidden waters," in Carola Hein, ed., Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future (Cham: Springer, 2019), pp. 51 (fig. 6 a–d) and 52.

Cited as:

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Karajī, Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah (LJS 399). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

792893356

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page