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Codex, Harar, 1789, Naskhī
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Sana Mirza, . (n.d.). Codex, Harar, 1789, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3835
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Sana Mirza. n.d. “Codex, Harar, 1789, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3835
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Sana Mirza. Codex, Harar, 1789, Naskhī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3835
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA-4.0
- Entry ID
- Ethiopia_SM_08
- Author
- Sana Mirza
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- Shaʿbān 1203
- October 1, 1789 – December 1, 1789
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Ethiopia, Harari region, Harar
- Present Location
- Institute of Ethiopian Studies, University College of Addis Ababa
- Website Link
- https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/520406
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'an
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Naskhī regional variant
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Juz 1 from a 30-part Qur’an endowed by Amir ʿAbd al-Shakūr ibn Amir Yūsuf for the benefit of his father Amir Yūsuf ibn Amir ʿAbu Bakar al-mujāḥid in Shaʿbān 1203/ Oct-November 1789. Institute of Ethiopian Studies, axccession number: IES 1850.
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\European paper
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 13 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- red ink
- Bibliography
- Gori, Alessandro, Anne Regourd, Steve Delamarter, and Demeke Berhane. A Handlist of the Manuscripts in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. Volume Two: The Arabic Materials of the Ethiopian Islamic Tradition. Pickwick Publications. Oregon, 2014.
- Gori, Alessandro. “Waqf Certificates of Qurʾans from Harar: A First Assessment.” Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: The Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa. Hamburg, Alessandro Gori, Alessandro Bausi, and Denis Nosnitsin, July 17, 2014, 281–96.
- Mirza, Sana. “Developing the Harari Muṣḥaf: The Indian Ocean Milieu of Ethiopian Scribes.” In Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present, edited by Stéphane Pradines and Farouk Topan. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
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
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - slight top serif
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail ending in hairline
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
horizontals
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)
- initial / medial bottom v-shaped
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin, open eye
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- small circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles