Manuscript, Gansu, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī · CallFront

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Manuscript, Gansu, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī

China_SJ_09a

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Item descriptor

Copyrights Holder: CallFront
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: China_SJ_09
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/btv1b52501996h
Language: Persian
Title of the Document (If Relevant): Marṣad al-ʿibād
Type of text: Devotional text
Text Content: sufism
Script: Naskhī/naskh
Color of the Script: black
Remarks (General Identification): BnF Supplément pers. 2071
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Writing Surface: paper\type of paper\oriental paper
Size (of the object): 30.3 x 20.4 cm
Technique: written
Remarks (Support): 216 f. ; paper with Du'a

Script descriptor

See the lexicon

General Script Characteristics

Character Spacing: regular spaces between characters
Presence of Elongation: rare
Shading / Contrast: non-nuanced strokes

Letter Morphology

Point: inclined square

Ascenders

Alif Ascenders: alif - thick vertical shaft
Lām Ascenders: lām - vertical; lām - thick vertical shaft
Kāf Ascenders: initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah) with s-shape body
ṭā' ẓā' ascenders: rounded swollen body; vertical shaft no serif

Descenders

wāw descenders: wāw - short curvilinear tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
mīm descenders: mīm - vertical downstroke
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: deep bowl extending upward over baseline
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: semicircular backward tail; closing upward

horizontals

bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals: ascending bowl

denticles

sīn shīn denticles: tall denticles perpendicular to baseline
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial slightly inclined to left

counters

hā' counters: isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
medial 'ain ghayn counters: rounded head open eye

vocalization and diacritics

shadda vocalization and diacritics: shadda - dot

Other

additional characteristics: The text contains a middle composition of the basmala with elongated vertical ascenders and exaggerated loops of mīm and ḥa; The shadda ends in a wide looped flourish

Image ID Entry: China_SJ_09a
Description: Manuscript, Gansu, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī
Photographer: Bibliothèque nationale de France / gallica.bnf.fr
License: Public Domain
Access Rights: Public