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Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, --
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APA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, ., & Johanna Cozzolino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, -- (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3936
Chicago
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. n.d. “Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, --.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3936
MLA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. Manuscript, Beijing, 1401, --, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3936
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_AVN_JC_02
- Date
- 31 Muharram 804 H.
- October 10, 1401
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Сhina, Beijing
- Present Location
- The Khalili Collections (QUR974), London
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Nature of the Text
- Bismillah
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- gold
- Signature Role
- Hajji Rashad ibn 'Ali al-Sini
- Remarks (General Identification)
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- other
- Size (of the object)
- 24.6 x 17.5 cm
- 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
- Line of Writing
- circular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- irregular undulations
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- strong contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square