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Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1109, Maghribī bookhand
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APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1109, Maghribī bookhand (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4044
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1109, Maghribī bookhand.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4044
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1109, Maghribī Bookhand, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4044
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_02
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 502 H.
- 1109
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Morocco, Marrakesh
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- الموطأ
- Nature of the Text
- Hadith
- Bismillah
- Script
- Maghribī bookhand
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād al-Lakhmī
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Fes, Qarawiyyīn Library, MS 605/1, pp. 50–1
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- parchment
- Size (of the object)
- 18 x 12 cm (single folio)
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- Scoring of the right and left margins in dry point
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Ink
- iron-gall inks (ḥibr)
- Bibliography
- Bongianino, Umberto. The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West: Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity. Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
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
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- alif - s-shaped
- alif - slight top serif
- alif - final ‘alif with spur below the baseline
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- mīm descenders
- long concave downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep broken bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - open straight bowl on baseline
- elongated open straight bowl on baseline
- ascending bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round loop, left stem extended upwards
- medial bottom open loop and top closed loop
- final simple downward stroke (makhṭufah)
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- circular head closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- semicircle open upwards
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- final and isolated dāl with concave downstroke and final downward spur (dāl kāfiyya), resembling “pursed lips” seen from the side