South Asia – Items
Manuscript, origin unknown, 1503, Biḥārī
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cite
APA
Monique Burési, ., & Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, . (n.d.). Manuscript, origin unknown, 1503, Biḥārī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3912
Chicago
Monique Burési, and Eloïse Brac de la Perrière. n.d. “Manuscript, origin unknown, 1503, Biḥārī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3912
MLA
Monique Burési, and Eloïse Brac de la Perrière. Manuscript, Origin Unknown, 1503, Biḥārī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3912
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_EBP_MB_08
- Date
- 4 Ramadān 908 H.
- March 3, 1503
- Place of Production
- India
- Present Location
- Montréal, McGill university (Rare books division), A31
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Part of a Quran : 11 independant juzʾ
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Biḥārī
- Remarks (General Identification)
- waqf-note on f. 45r-v of juzʾ 2
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- 23.3 x 16.4 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- H. 16,7 ; l. 11,5 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 7
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Bibliography
- Brac de la Perrière, Éloïse. “Prisme Indien : Recherches Sur Les Corans En Écriture Bihari Des Origines à Nos Jours. Dossier d’Habilitation à Diriger Des Recherches, Vol. 2 - Ouvrage Original.” Dossier d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, vol. 2 - ouvrage original, Aix-Marseille université, 2015. Cat. 86.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between groups of words
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined partial square
Ascenders
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - thick angular oblique tapered tail
- rā'/zā' - short almost horizontal tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- final lām straight horizontal bowl below baseline
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
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 slightly inclined to left
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial triangular denticles
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular pointed head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- triangular head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- horizontal stroke
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- sād/ḍād rounded swollen body, thick horizontal bottom stroke
- isolated and final dāl and dhāl is a sharp angle
- Vowels are systematically placed