Manuscript, Khurasan, 11th-12th century, New Style III ; New Style I

Copyrights Holder: CallFront
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: Iran_AK_03
Author: Alya Karame
Contributor(s): Nuria Garcia Masip
Date: 584 H.; 1188 – 1189
Localization Exactitude Degree: Approximate
Place of Production: Khurasan, Herat province, Herat (probably)
Present Location: National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran Bastan 3496
Language: Arabic
Title of the Document (If Relevant): Qur'an
Type of text: Quran
Script: Round Style - Muḥaqqaq
Color of the Script: black
Signature: Muḥammad b. ʿIssa b. Muhammad ʿAlī al-Nīshāpūrī Līthī
Signature Role: calligrapher
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Size (of the object): 41 x 33 cm
Ruling (Manuscript): 6
Bibliography: Flood, Finbarr Barry. “Islamic Identities and Islamic Art: Inscribing the Qurʾan in Twelfth-Century Afghanistan.” In Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century, edited by Elizabeth Cropper. Studies in the History of Art 74. National Gallery of Art, Washington Distributed by Yale University Press, 2009., p. 96–99.; Flood, Finbarr Barry. “Islamic Identities and Islamic Art: Inscribing the Qurʾan in Twelfth-Century Afghanistan.” In Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century, edited by Elizabeth Cropper. Studies in the History of Art 74. National Gallery of Art, Washington Distributed by Yale University Press, 2009. 96–99.

See the lexicon

sīn shīn denticles: short pointed denticles
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: medial short pointed denticles

hā' counters: isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
fā' qāf wāw counters: curvilinear head horizontally accentuated
medial 'ain ghayn counters: wide inverted triangle
mīm counters: rounded head