Китаб Хона

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/ ... OX=1&REC=8

мдя, странная пила. явно где-то разборная.

веревочные растяжки паралельно полотну пилы - установил пилу, натянул, закрепил, и работаешь. а ведь просто и практично .

Влад, еще где-то такую пилу встречал? Этнография?

да, и притом украинская , наверное до 50-60-х гг. 20 века. в селе такая долгое время валялась...
честно говоря, как то не обращал внимания на древность такого инструмента

Чтобы не затерялось, пока попалась на глаза:
Рубеж 14-15 вв., Mehmed Siyah Qualem, из Топкапи. The most famous amongst the albums in the Top Kapi palace are the Mehmed Siyah Qualem collection., depicting monsters and the life of the nomads. There are 64 in all, and their style varies, so they must be from different masters. They are executed in black wash with occasional brushstrokes of faint colour. They come in two sorts, one of demons with human and animal attributes who wrestle, dance, play games and drink, thought to depict shamanistic ideas, where humans wearing masks act like demons. The second show the life of people of the steppes. There are thought to go back to the culture of Transoxania and Turkestan, influenced by Chinese and other Asian civilizations. They are probably from the 14th and 15th century, from an area where Shamanistic ideas were still alive in some sufi orders (from a text in the museum).

фото: Dick Osseman

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigi ... os=158&e=w
The death of the prophet Zakarîyâ (Zacharias), who is killed when the tree in which he is hiding is sawed in two. (18 Shawwâl 984 [8 January 1577])

Ручная пила.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Build ... Mosque.jpg
Building the Great Mosque of Samarkand. Illustration by Bihzad for the Zafar-Nameh. Text copied in Herat in 1467-68 and illuminated c. the late 1480s. John Work Garret Collection, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore. Fols. 359v-36or.

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the ... ami&pos=11
"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami
Author: Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141–1217)
Calligrapher: Sultan Muhammad Nur (ca. 1472–ca. 1536)
Calligrapher: Mahmud Muzahhib
Artist: Painting by Shaikh Zada
Object Name: Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: A.H. 931/A.D. 1524–25
Geography: present-day Afghanistan, Herat

http://www.cbl.ie/cbl_image_gallery/col ... eSupport=1
Shirin Visits Farhad at Mount Bisitun
Five Poems of Nizami
1492, Iran
Per 171, f. 51b