Featured on PDR in the collection Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī’s Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)
The images gathered below come from an anonymous copy of Ismail al-Jazarī’s thirteenth-century treatise on the construction of machines. While this copy is undated, it forms part of a manuscript (collecting various Arabic scientific texts) bound in the seventeenth century and preserved at Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek (Ms. or Fol. 3306).
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Date
ca. 17th century
From
Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306
