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Codex, Harar, 1731, Naskhī
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Sana Mirza, . (n.d.). Codex, Harar, 1731, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3829
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Sana Mirza. n.d. “Codex, Harar, 1731, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3829
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Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA-4.0
- Entry ID
- Ethiopia_SM_02
- Author
- Sana Mirza
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 10 Shaʿbān 1143
- February 17, 1731
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Ethiopia, Harari region, Harar
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Place of production is based on stylistic analysis and oral histories.
- Present Location
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'an
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Naskhī regional variant
- Remarks (General Identification)
- This entry is for only the Qur'anic text and not the paratextual materials in the manuscript.
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\European paper
- Size (of the object)
- 31.5 x 21.5 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 17 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- red ink
- Bibliography
- Mirza, Sana. “A Red Sea Style ? The Early Eighteenth Century Qur’an Manuscripts of Harar.” Annales d’Ethiopie 34 (2022): 73–98.
- Mirza, Sana. “The Visual Resonances of a Harari Qur’ān: An 18th Century Ethiopian Manuscript and Its Indian Ocean Connections.” Afriques, no. 8 (2017). https://journals.openedition.org/afriques/2052
- Mirza, Sana. “An Ethiopian Indian Ocean Tradition: The Qur’an Manuscripts of Harar.” Muslim Cultures in the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past & Present (Edinburgh), 2023.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - non serifed
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - angular horizontal tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep semicircular bowl
- final lām straight horizontal bowl below baseline
- deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke below baseline
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short rounded denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- 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
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- small circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form