File:"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari MET sf5512111.jpg

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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, copy by Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif (MET, 55.121.11)

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al-Jazari: "Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
al-Jazari  (1136–1206)  wikidata:Q81627 s:it:Autore:Al-Jazari q:en:Al-Jazari
 
al-Jazari
Alternative names
Ismail al-Jazari; Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari; Al-Jazari
Description mathematician, inventor, writer, engineer, astronomer and 'ālim
Date of birth/death 1136 Edit this at Wikidata 1206 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Upper Mesopotamia Turkey
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q81627
Title
"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Description
Folio from an illustrated manuscript; Codices
Date dated A.H. 715/ A.D. 1315
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)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Islamic Art
Accession number
55.121.11
Credit line Rogers Fund, 1955
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451298

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