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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/3929
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Manuscript, Ponnani, 18th-19th century.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3929
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Manuscript, Ponnani, 18th-19th Century, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3929
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_08
- 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 x 13 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 9
- 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
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - slight top serif
Descenders
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl ending in ascending hairline
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- Short bowl on baseline
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft and backward stroke
- final one-eyed with long backward stroke
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles