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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_09
Author: Zulfikar Hirji
Contributor(s): Nuria Garcia Masip
Date: 1163 – 1267 H.; 1749 – 1850
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: Kenya, Lamu Archipelago, Pate Island (?)
Present Location: Private Collection of Swadiqi Abdulrahman Mohammad, Siyu (Kenya)
Language: Arabic
Type of text: Quran
Color of the Script: black; red; white
Remarks (General Identification): Incomplete (Q1-18)
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Ruling (Manuscript): 11 lines
Technique: written
Bibliography: Unpublished

Script descriptor

See the lexicon

General Script Characteristics

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

Letter Morphology

Point: short stroke at an angle

Ascenders

Alif Ascenders: alif - non serifed
Lām Ascenders: lām - vertical; lām - top left serif; lām - non serifed
Kāf Ascenders: initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah); top arm pointing upwards; initial /medial compact form rounded body; sword-like top arm with serif; final vertical shaft with top arm (sarkaj)
ṭā' ẓā' ascenders: rounded body; vertical shaft no serif

Descenders

wāw descenders: wāw - long curvilinear tail ending in hairline; wide rounded tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - long curvilinear tail ending in hairline; rā'/zā' - s-shaped
mīm descenders: mīm - long curvilinear tail; mīm - vertical downstroke; mīm - s-shape
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: deep broken bowl; Short bowl on baseline; wide deep bowl; long plunging bowl
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: backward tail; opening horizontal
yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders: backward horizontal stroke; backward horizontal stroke below baseline

horizontals

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

denticles

sīn shīn denticles: short pointed denticles
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial slightly inclined to left; medial short pointed denticles

counters

hā' counters: isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr); initial / medial bottom v-shaped; initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah); final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
fā' qāf wāw counters: triangular pointed head closed eye; triangular pointed head
medial 'ain ghayn counters: wide inverted triangle
mīm counters: rounded head pointed chin

vocalization and diacritics

fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics: horizontal stroke
ḍamma vocalization and diacritics: comma
hamza vocalization and diacritics: small ‘ain
sukūn vocalization and diacritics: circle
shadda vocalization and diacritics: short denticles touching upper vowel

Other

additional characteristics: Final dāl / dhāl crescent tail; Final dhāl with point inside tail; Certain letters such as the loop for jīm /khā’/hā’ and the inside of kāf are filled in red; The word Allah is consistently written in red