Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Codex, Harar, late 17th or early 18th century, Naskhī
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APA
Sana Mirza, . (n.d.). Codex, Harar, late 17th or early 18th century, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3828
Chicago
Sana Mirza. n.d. “Codex, Harar, late 17th or early 18th century, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3828
MLA
Sana Mirza. Codex, Harar, Late 17th or Early 18th Century, Naskhī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3828
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA-4.0
- Entry ID
- Ethiopia_SM_01
- Author
- Sana Mirza
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 17th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Ethiopia, Harari region, Harar
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- The manuscript is attributed to Harar based on style. It was likely produced in the late 17th century-early 18th century CE.
- Present Location
- Sherif Harar Museum, Harar, Ethiopia
- Website Link
- https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/527086
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'an
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Naskhī regional variant
- Remarks (General Identification)
- 30th juz of the Qur'an. The entry is for the Qur'anic text t the endowment tice.
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\watermark
- Size (of the object)
- 15 x 10.2 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 11 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- red ink
- Bibliography
- Gori, Alessandro, Anne Regourd, Michele Petrone, and Sara Fani. “IslHornAfr Database.” IslHornAfr Database. https://islhornafr.tors.ku.dk/backend/people/3162.
- Mirza, Sana. “A Red Sea Style ? The Early Eighteenth Century Qur’an Manuscripts of Harar.” Annales d’Ethiopie 34 (2022): 73–98.
- Regourd, Anne, and Sana Mirza. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Du Sherif Harar Municipal Museum. Geuthner. 340 vols. Paris, 2024.
- Regourd, Anne, “The Harari waqfiyyas of Qur’ans, their waqifs, and copyists.” In The Fake, the Replica, & the Copy. Islam 7th–20th C. Brill, 2026.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - top right serif
Descenders
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
- final lām straight horizontal bowl below baseline
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- backward tail
horizontals
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial bottom v-shaped
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- isolated one-eyed round loop, left 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
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- when fatha is followed by sukun it is written together in one single looped stroke