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Codex, Pate Island(?), undated, Naskh with Thuluth elements

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Item descriptor

Copyrights Holder: CallFront
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: Kenya_ZH_02
Author: Zulfikar Hirji
Contributor(s): Nuria Garcia Masip
Date: undated
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: Kenya, Lamu Archipelago, Pate Island (?)
Present Location: Collection of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Sultanate of Oman, Muscat (Oman). Ms. 108
Language: Arabic
Type of text: Quran
Color of the Script: black; red; white
Remarks (General Identification): Second volume of a two-volume Qur'an: al-Ḥamd to al-Anʿām
(Q. 1–6)
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Size (of the object): 21 x 15 cm
Ruling (Manuscript): 12 lines
Technique: written
Remarks (Support): Restored.
Bibliography: Unpublished

Script descriptor

See the lexicon

General Script Characteristics

Line of Writing: broken
Groups of Characters Baseline: partial stacking of characters
Character Spacing: irregular spaces between characters
Presence of Elongation: frequent
Elongated Letters: nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl; medial ligatures
Length of Elongation: varied length of elongations
Ligature: Abusive - rā’ and tāʾ marbūṭa; Abusive - wāw and tāʾ marbūṭa; Conventional - curvilinear
Shading / Contrast: medium contrast

Letter Morphology

Point: inclined square

Ascenders

Alif Ascenders: alif - non serifed
Lām Ascenders: lām - inclined to left; lām - non serifed
Kāf Ascenders: initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah); top arm with serif; medial, initial vertical shaft; final vertical shaft; top flat arm; final vertical shaft with top arm (sarkaj)
ṭā' ẓā' ascenders: rounded body; vertical shaft no serif

Descenders

wāw descenders: wāw - short curvilinear tail; wāw - angular horizontal tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail; rā'/zā' - s-shaped
mīm descenders: mīm - long flattened, tapered tail; mīm - vertical downstroke
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: elongated curvilinear deep bowl; deep bowl; nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent bowl
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: semicircular backward tail; opening horizontal
yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders: backward horizontal stroke below baseline

horizontals

bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals: bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl; bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl

denticles

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

counters

hā' counters: isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr); initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah); final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left; final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
fā' qāf wāw counters: triangular pointed head
medial 'ain ghayn counters: compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
mīm counters: circular head

vocalization and diacritics

ḍamma vocalization and diacritics: oblique tail (10°-35°); closed eye
hamza vocalization and diacritics: small ‘ain
sukūn vocalization and diacritics: circle
shadda vocalization and diacritics: short denticles

Other

additional characteristics: Final dāl / dhāl crescent tail; final dhāl with point inside tail; Word Allah is consistently written in red; Certain letters such as the loop for jīm /khā’/hā’ and the inside of kāf are filled in red; Lām/’alif two almost parallel strokes