Design for the Water Clock of the Peacocks from the Kitab fi ma’rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) by Badi’ al-Zaman b

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Folio from an illustrated manuscript; Codices

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