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Manuscript, Gansu, 1546, --
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APA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, ., & Johanna Cozzolino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Gansu, 1546, -- (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3966
Chicago
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. n.d. “Manuscript, Gansu, 1546, --.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3966
MLA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. Manuscript, Gansu, 1546, --, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3966
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_AVN_JC_32
- Date
- Muharram 953 H.
- 1546
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- China, Gansu province
- Present Location
- Private collection
- Website Link
- https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5985279
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Khalil Ibrahim Yunus al-sini
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- other
- Size (of the object)
- 68 x 10.5 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 15 lines
- Technique
- written
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - top right serif
- Kāf Ascenders
- initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short almost horizontal tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short almost horizontal tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - short almost horizontal tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated 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
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- 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
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form