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Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh
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Cailah Jackson, . (n.d.). Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh. In . Cailah Jackson, Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4032
Chicago
Cailah Jackson. n.d. “Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh”. Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4032
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Cailah Jackson. “Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh”. Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi, by Cailah Jackson, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4032
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Anatolia_CJ_03
- Author
- Cailah Jackson
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- Rajab 677 H.
- November 1278 – December 1278
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Türkiye, Konya
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Production place is not explicitly named in the manuscript but contextual and visual evidence strongly points to Konya.
- Present Location
- Mevlana Müzesi, Konya, 51
- Language
- Persian
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Mathnawī-yi maʿnawī
- Type of text
- Poetry
- Text Content
- Didactic poetry in rhyming couplets
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Qūnawī al-Waladī
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- L: 49.5, W: 33.5
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 29 lines in 4 columns
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- Bibliography
- Tanındı, Zeren. “1278 Tarihli En Eski Mesnevi’nin Tezhipleri.” In Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür ve Sanat 8. 1990, pp. 17-22
- 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, p. 45-55
- Jackson, Cailah. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rūm, 1270s–1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, p. 23-81
- Jackson, Cailah. Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400: A Study of the Sources. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, cat. 3
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Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- final bā’/ṭā' /fā’ bowl
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - vertical
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - vertical downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- deep bowl left open
- final lām straight horizontal bowl below baseline
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin, closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- diagonal stroke (40°-45°)
- vertical stroke inclined to left (before a long)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- oblique tail (10°-35°)
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- one or several subscript dots dāl / rāʾ/ sīn
Other
- additional characteristics
- triangular symmetrical base for lām-alif