Or 13718 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Translation from Arabic of Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-ḥiyal al-handasiyya ( ‏كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية ) , the treatise on automata by Jazarī, Ismāʻīl ibn al-Razzāz, fl. 1181-1204, الجزري، إسماعيل بن الرزاز for Nāṣir al-Dīn, King of Diyarbakır (Turkey) around 605/1205

Language(s): Translation from Arabic

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 34.

Form: codex

Extent: 191 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 22 × 15 cm.

Illustrated

Origin: 914 AH ; Malwa (Punjab), India

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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