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Manuscript, Gansu, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī
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APA
Shunhua Jin, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Gansu, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3855
Chicago
Shunhua Jin. n.d. “Manuscript, Gansu, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3855
MLA
Shunhua Jin. Manuscript, Gansu, C. 18-19th Century, Naskhī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3855
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_SJ_02
- Author
- Shunhua Jin
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 1701 – 1900
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China, Gansu province
- Present Location
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
- Website Link
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525019579
- Language
- Persian
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Miʿrāğ-i Muḥammadî
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Text Content
- stories on the Prophet (Booklets intended for the training of Chinese imam)
- Script
- Naskhī/naskh
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- BnF Supplément persan 2065
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\oriental paper
- Size (of the object)
- 22.5 x 17 cm
- Technique
- written
- Remarks (Support)
- 47 f. ; Paper with content in Chinese. White cloth binding,
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- Line of writing - horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- final bā’/ṭā' /fā’ bowl
- Ligature
- Abusive - rā’ and hā'
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - diagonal tail
- mīm descenders
- concave downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
-
rounded head
closed eye - medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head