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Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, Chinese Muḥaqqaq
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APA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, ., & Johanna Cozzolino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, Chinese Muḥaqqaq (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3935
Chicago
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. n.d. “Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, Chinese Muḥaqqaq.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3935
MLA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, Chinese Muḥaqqaq, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3935
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_AVN_JC_01
- Date
- 30 Muharram 804 H.
- October 9, 1401
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Сhina, Beijing
- Present Location
- The Khalili Collections (QUR974), London
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Chinese Muḥaqqaq
- Remarks (General Identification)
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- other
- Size (of the object)
- 24.5 x 17.5 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 5 lines
- Technique
- written
- Bibliography
- Rogers, John Michael. The Arts of Islam: Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection. Thames&Hudson. 2010. cat.176. p.151 ;
- Bayani, Manijeh, Contadini, Anna, Stanley, Tim et al.. The Decorated Word: Qurʾans of the 17th to 19th Centuries. 2009. cat.1, p.10, 13-14 and 16-17 ;
- Blair, Sheila. Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh, 2020. 373-375 ;
- Humbert, Geneviève, and Vernay-Nouri, Annie. “De quelques corans chinois et leur papier.” Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph LIX (2006): 253–67.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
- Initial, medial and final shaft slightly inclined to left
- top arm with serif
- top flat arm
- vertical shaft with top arm (sarkaj)
- ṭā' ẓā' ascenders
- rounded body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long diagonal tapered tail, hairline ending
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long diagonal tapered tail, hairline ending
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- hamza vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form
Other
- additional characteristics
- dot of the bā’ is placed on the baseline before the letter