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Manuscript, Xinjiang, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī
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APA
Shunhua Jin, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Xinjiang, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3864
Chicago
Shunhua Jin. n.d. “Manuscript, Xinjiang, c. 18-19th century, Naskhī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3864
MLA
Shunhua Jin. Manuscript, Xinjiang, C. 18-19th Century, Naskhī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3864
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_SJ_11
- Author
- Shunhua Jin
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 1701 – 1900
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China, Xinjiang region
- Present Location
- Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
- Language
- Persian
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Kitāb-i namāz
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Script
- Naskhī/naskh
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Ms. Or. Oct. 1518
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\oriental paper
- Technique
- written
- Remarks (Support)
- 117 f.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between words
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - straight
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - non serifed
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short almost horizontal tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear hairline tail
- rā'/zā' - long oblique tapered tail, hairline ending
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- deep bowl extending upward over baseline
- deep bowl looping inwards
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- backward narrow tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- short backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head closed eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
Other
- additional characteristics
- Kāf with three dots on top of the arm as in the “xiao’erjing” script