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Manuscript, Ceuta, 1191, Maghribī andalusī
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Cite
APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Ceuta, 1191, Maghribī andalusī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4045
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Ceuta, 1191, Maghribī andalusī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4045
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Ceuta, 1191, Maghribī Andalusī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4045
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_03
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 587 H.
- 1191
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Spain, Ceuta
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 20:103–35, 21:1–2
- Script
- Maghribī mabsūṭ
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shuʿayb al-Anṣārī
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, ms. R. 27, ff. 99b–100a
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- parchment
- Size (of the object)
- 32.5 x 26.5 cm (single folio)
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- Scored in dry point on the right and left margins
- Technique
- written
- 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
- frequent
- Length of Elongation
- standard length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- alif - rounded head oriented leftwards
- 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
- convex downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep semicircular bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- elongated open straight bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round loop, left stem extended upwards
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- horizontal stroke
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- red
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- inverse C
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics colour
- red
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- hamza - dot
- hamza vocalization and diacritics colour
- ochre
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- small circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles touching upper vowel
Other
- additional characteristics
- sād/ḍād with trapezoidal elongated body
- fā’ one diacritical point below head / qāf one point above head
- isolated and final dāl and dhāl concave downward stroke looping backwards and final spur
- waṣla green dot