Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Codex, Harar, late 18th or early 19th century, Naskhī
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Cite
APA
Sana Mirza, . (n.d.). Codex, Harar, late 18th or early 19th century, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3831
Chicago
Sana Mirza. n.d. “Codex, Harar, late 18th or early 19th century, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3831
MLA
Sana Mirza. Codex, Harar, Late 18th or Early 19th Century, Naskhī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3831
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA-4.0
- Entry ID
- Ethiopia_SM_04
- Author
- Sana Mirza
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 1775 – 1825
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Ethiopia, Harari region, Harar
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- The place of production is an attribution based on stylistic analysis
- Present Location
- Sherif Harar City Museum, Harar, Ethiopia
- Website Link
- https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/527319
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'an
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Naskhī regional variant
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Single-volume Qur’an, Sherif Harar Municipal Museum, Accession number : SH2009.38
- 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)
- 24.2 x 16.2 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 15 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- red ink
- Bibliography
- Regourd, Anne, and Sana Mirza. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Du Sherif Harar Municipal Museum. Geuthner. 340 vols. Paris, 2024.
- 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
- Gori, Alessandro, Regourd, Anne, Petrone, Michele and Fani, Sara. “IslHornAfr Database.” IslHornAfr Database. https://islhornafr.tors.sc.ku.dk/backend/manuscripts/839
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
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - non serifed
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long curvilinear tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened 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)
- initial / medial bottom v-shaped
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- ḍamma 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
Other
- additional characteristics
- It feels the kasras are oblique and between 45-30 degress but the fathas seem more horizontal or oblique at 10 degrees