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Manuscript, Calicut, After 1823
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APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Calicut, After 1823 (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3925
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Manuscript, Calicut, After 1823.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3925
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Manuscript, Calicut, After 1823, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3925
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_04
- Date
- Post-1823 (Watermark has a date)
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala State, Calicut (Kozhikode)
- Present Location
- Calicut, Mithqāl Mosque
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- red
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- 41.5 x 26.5 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 20-21
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - inclined to left
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- wāw - long thick angular oblique tapered tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- rā'/zā' - long thick angular oblique tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- Short bowl on baseline
- wide deep bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- elongated open straight bowl on baseline
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- rounded base denticles
- rounded base denticles with first denticle extended
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial/medial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- isolated short vertical shaft looped rightwards with oblique stroke
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- final one-eyed with long backward stroke
- final multi-knotted form (musalsalah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle with thin right stroke
- asymmetrical inverted triangle open eye
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- closed eye
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript hamzah (nabrah) for medial/final kāf
Other
- additional characteristics
- lam-alif with alif inclined sharply towards the right
- numerous use of hairlines for descenders