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"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari|Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif

Date

dated A.H. 715/ 1315 CE

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

H. 11 5/8 in. (29. 5 cm) W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm) Mat size: H. 19 in. (48.3 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm) Frame: H. 21 5/8 in. (54.9 cm) W. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

probably Syria or Iraq

Object number

55.121.11

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1955

The Met object ID 451298. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.