Codex, Harar, 1603-1604, Naskhī

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License: CC BY-SA-4.0
Entry ID: Ethiopia_SM_07
Author: Sana Mirza
Contributor(s): Nuria Garcia Masip
Date: 1012; 1603 – 1604
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: Ethiopia, Harari region, Harar
Present Location: Sherif Harar City Museum, Harar, Ethiopia
Website Link: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/527345
Language: Arabic
Title of the Document (If Relevant): Qur'an
Type of text: Quran
Script: Naskhī regional variant
Color of the Script: black; red
Signature: Shaykha Amīna bint Shaykh Fāriḥ
Signature Role: calligrapher
Remarks (General Identification): Juz 12 from a 30-part Qur’an copied and endowed by Shaykha Amīna bint Shaykh Fāriḥ for her husband, al-Sayyīd ʿAbd al-Hādī, and their children in 1012/1603-4. Sherif Harar Museum, Accession number: SH2009.65 (ASH00275).
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Ruling (Manuscript): 12 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.; Gori, Alessandro, Regourd, Anne, Petrone, Michele and Fani, Sara. “IslHornAfr Database.” IslHornAfr Database. https://islhornafr.tors.sc.ku.dk/backend/manuscripts/578

See the lexicon

sīn shīn denticles: short pointed denticles
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial perpendicular to baseline; medial short pointed denticles

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

additional characteristics: The manuscript is really inconsistent; words hover on/under the baseline