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File:Folio from The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices (1354 copy). Part of a water clock (detail).jpg

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English: Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Kitab fi ma'arifat al-hiyal al-handisaya (The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices) "Automata" by al-Jazari; text: Arabic in black naskhi script; recto: Part of a water-clock, with a man seated

Contrary to some descriptions, this is not Saladin, but a random clock operator in a Medieval manuscript.
Date 1354
date QS:P571,+1354-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q1075126
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F1932.19
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