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Manuscript, Calicut, 1878,
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APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Calicut, 1878, (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3932
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Manuscript, Calicut, 1878”,, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3932
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Manuscript, Calicut, 1878,, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3932
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_11
- Date
- 1295 H.
- 1878
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala State, Calicut (Kozhikode)
- Present Location
- Calicut, Mithqāl Mosque
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Text Content
- Majmūʿa of various devotional litanies
- Signature
- Muammad bin ʾAhmad bin Muhammad bin ʾAhmad bin al-Ghaẓālī fī Bayt al-Jadīd
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper / type of paper/european paper
- Size (of the object)
- 31.5 x 19.2 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 7-10
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- Line of writing - horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- Groups of characters baseline - horizontal
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- short bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- medial swollen double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle with thin right stroke
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
-
diagonal stroke
(40°-45°) - hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
- superscript hamzah (nabrah) for medial/final kāf