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Manuscript, Ponnani, 18th-19th century,
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APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Ponnani, 18th-19th century, (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3928
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Manuscript, Ponnani, 18th-19th century”,, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3928
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Manuscript, Ponnani, 18th-19th Century,, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3928
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_07
- Date
- 1701 – 1900
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala State, Malappuram district, Ponnani (?)
- Present Location
- Ponnani Jami Kuthubkhana
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- red
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- 19.5 x 13 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 11
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- brush
- 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
- standard length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- wāw - long thick angular oblique tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl extending upward over baseline
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short straight bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial very low, inclined to right
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft and backward stroke
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- final one-eyed with long backward stroke
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular pointed head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle with thin right stroke
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Strokes are sometimes left unfinished, leaving a small gap between certain characteres
- Long horizontal thick eyebrow for jīm/ ḥa/khā