Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Codex, Harar, likely 19th century, Naskhī
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Cite
APA
Sana Mirza, . (n.d.). Codex, Harar, likely 19th century, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3832
Chicago
Sana Mirza. n.d. “Codex, Harar, likely 19th century, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3832
MLA
Sana Mirza. Codex, Harar, Likely 19th Century, Naskhī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3832
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA-4.0
- Entry ID
- Ethiopia_SM_05
- Author
- Sana Mirza
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 19th century
- 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
- Duke University Library
- Website Link
- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4ng4jr4q
- 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, Duke University Library, Arabic MS 23 c.1
- 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)
- 32.5 x 21.6 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 17 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- red ink
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - non serifed
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- circular head closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- small circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles