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Manuscript, Xi'an, 1496, --
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APA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, ., & Johanna Cozzolino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Xi’an, 1496, -- (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3967
Chicago
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. n.d. “Manuscript, Xi’an, 1496, --.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3967
MLA
Annie Vernay-Nouri, and Johanna Cozzolino. Manuscript, Xi’an, 1496, --, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3967
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_AVN_JC_33
- Date
- Rajab 903 H.
- 1498
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- China, Shaanxi province, Xi'an
- Present Location
- Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2020.1)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Qawwam al-Din bin Ahmad al-Sini
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- other
- Size (of the object)
- 36.2 x 24.8 mm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 17 lines
- Technique
- written
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- Line of writing - horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- Groups of characters baseline - horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened, tapered tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long flattened, tapered tail
- mīm descenders
- long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- Short bowl on baseline
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- semicircular backward tail
horizontals
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final multi-knotted form (musalsalah)
- 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
-
oblique stroke
(10°-35°) - fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- black
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- oblique tail (10°-35°)
- 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