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Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh
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APA
Cailah Jackson, . (n.d.). Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4031
Chicago
Cailah Jackson. n.d. “Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4031
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Cailah Jackson. Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4031
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Anatolia_CJ_02
- Author
- Cailah Jackson
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- End of Rabiʿ II 677 H.
- September 1278
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Türkiye, Konya, Madrasa of Saʿd al-Dīn Köpek (no longer extant)
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Madrasa is no longer extant
- Present Location
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Is 1466
- Website Link
- https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Is_1466/1/
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'an
- Type of text
- Quran
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Ḥasan ibn Chūbān ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Qūnawī
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- L: 10.5, W: 8
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 15 lines in 1 column
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- Bibliography
- Tanındı, Zeren. “Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatında Tezhip: Müzehhip Muhlis b. Abdullah El-Hindî ve Halefleri.” In Arkeoloji ve Sanat Tarihi Araştırmaları: Yıldız Demiriz’e Armağan, Baha Tanman and Uşun Tükel. Simurg, 2001, 141-150.
- Wright, Elaine. Islam: Faith, Art, Culture: Manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Library. Scala, 2009, p. 72.
- Canby, Sheila, Beyazit, Deniz, Rugiadi, Martina and Peacock, A. C. S.. Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.d. Accessed October 14, 2025.
- Jackson, Cailah. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rūm, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book. Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, p. 23-81.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- opening downwards
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial bottom v-shaped
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small wave
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- triangular symmetrical lām-alif