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Codex, Konya, 1286, Naskh
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Cailah Jackson, . (n.d.). Codex, Konya, 1286, Naskh (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4034
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Cailah Jackson. n.d. “Codex, Konya, 1286, Naskh.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4034
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Cailah Jackson. Codex, Konya, 1286, Naskh, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4034
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Anatolia_CJ_05
- Author
- Cailah Jackson
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 4 Dhu'l-Hijja 684 H.
- February 7, 1286
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Türkiye, Konya
- Present Location
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, persan 121
- Website Link
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10091204b
- Language
- Persian
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Laṭāʾif al-Ḥikma
- Type of text
- Other
- Text Content
- Mirror for princes/advice literature
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Abū al-Maḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥājjī al-mulaqqab bi-Ḥamīd al-Mukhliṣī al-Bukhārī
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- L: 24, W: 17.2
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 15 lines in 1 column
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- Bibliography
- Richard, Francis. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Persans I : Ancien Fonds. Editions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Paris, 1989. pp. 138-139
- Richard, Francis. Splendeurs Persanes: Manuscrits Du XIIe Au XVIIe Siècle. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Paris, 1997. cat. 5
- Jackson, Cailah. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rūm, 1270s–1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. pp. 78 n 98, 166 n 52
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- 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 slightly inclined to left
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- 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
- diagonal stroke (40°-45°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- oblique tail (10°-35°)
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles