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Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi
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Cailah Jackson, . (n.d.). Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi. In . Cailah Jackson, Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4033
Chicago
Cailah Jackson. n.d. “Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi”. Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4033
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Cailah Jackson. “Codex, Konya, 1278, Tawqi”. Codex, Konya, 1278, Naskh, by Cailah Jackson, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4033
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Anatolia_CJ_04
- 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
- Prose prefaces
- Script
- Tawqī‘\musalsal tawqī‘
- Color of the Script
- gold
- 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)
- Varies: 12-19 lines in 1-2 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, p. 17-22
- Tanındı, Zeren. "Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatında Tezhip" Gölpınarlı, Abdülbaki, Mevlânâ Müzesi müzelik yazma kitaplar kataloğu, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2003, pp. 45–55
- 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. PP. 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
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- Initial /medial compact form diagonal body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wide rounded tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- 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
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- final simple downward stroke (makhṭufah)
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin, 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
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- lām-‘alif stylized V form with gap