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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_10
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, Siyu (?)
Present Location: Private Collection of Swadiqi Abdulrahman Mohammad, Siyu (Kenya)
Language: Arabic
Type of text: Quran
Color of the Script: black; red; white; green
Signature: Khatīb b.
Abd al-Rahmān al-Siwī
Remarks (General Identification): Single volume. Complete Quran with supplementary sections containing prayers.
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Ruling (Manuscript): 22 lines
Technique: written
Bibliography: Unpublished

Script descriptor

See the lexicon

General Script Characteristics

Character Spacing: regular spaces between characters
Presence of Elongation: occasional
Elongated Letters: nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl; bā’/fā’ bowl; tā bowl; medial ligatures
Length of Elongation: varied length of elongations
Ligature: Abusive - rā’ and tāʾ marbūṭa; Abusive - wāw and tāʾ marbūṭa; Abusive - dāl and tāʾ marbūṭa; Conventional - curvilinear
Shading / Contrast: non-nuanced strokes

Ascenders

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

Descenders

wāw descenders: wāw - short almost horizontal tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - short almost horizontal tail; rā'/zā' - s-shaped
mīm descenders: short diagonal to left; mīm - vertical downstroke
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: elongated curvilinear deep bowl; deep 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; 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: isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr); initial / medial bottom v-shaped; initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah); final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
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; The word Allah is consistently written in red; Lām-alif two almost parallel strokes