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Manuscript, Khurasan, 972, New Style III
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APA
Alya Karame, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Khurasan, 972, New Style III (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3795
Chicago
Alya Karame. n.d. “Manuscript, Khurasan, 972, New Style III.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3795
MLA
Alya Karame. Manuscript, Khurasan, 972, New Style III, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3795
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Iran_AK_01
- Author
- Alya Karame
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 11th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Iran, Razavi Khorasan province, Nishapur
- Present Location
- Turk ve Islam Eserleri Muzesi, TIEM 449
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'an
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Round Style - Muḥaqqaq
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Forged as Ibn al-Bawwab
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- 17.1 x 12.5 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 23
- Bibliography
- Rice, D. S. The Unique Ibn Al-Bawwab Manuscript à La Chester Beatty Library. Translated by Jacqueline Bernard. Club du Livre, 1980, p. 105–109 .
- Rice, D. S. The Unique Ibn Al-Bawwab Manuscript à La Chester Beatty Library. Translated by Jacqueline Bernard. Club du Livre, 1980. 105-109.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Elongated Letters
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - top right elongated serif
- Kāf Ascenders
- initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long curvilinear tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft / sometimes with serif
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- isolated one-eyed round loop, right stem extended upwards
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Every bowl is an extended bowl, very legible script