Title: "The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Object type: Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: dated 715 AH/1315 CE
Artist:  Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif 
Artist role: Calligrapher
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions: H. 11 13/16 in. (30 cm)
W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7cm)
Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
        W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
Frame: H. 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm)
              W. 15 1/4  in. (38.7 cm)
Classification: Codices
Credit line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956
Geography: Made in    probably Syria or Iraq      
Department: Islamic Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Men, term: Dragons, term: Elephants, term: Clocks