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Manuscript, Northwest Africa, end of the 12th century, Maghribī Thuluth
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APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Northwest Africa, end of the 12th century, Maghribī Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4046
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Northwest Africa, end of the 12th century, Maghribī Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4046
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Northwest Africa, End of the 12th Century, Maghribī Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4046
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_05
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 1176/1200
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Northwest Africa
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- موطأ الإمام المهدي
- Nature of the Text
- Hadith
- Script
- Maghribī Thuluth
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Fes, Qarawiyyīn Library, ms. 181, pp. 6–7
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- parchment
- Size (of the object)
- 26 x 21 cm (single folio)
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- 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
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Abusive - ‘alif and lām
- Abusive - wāw and qāf
- Abusive - rā’ and wāw
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
- top arm pointing upwards
- Initial /medial compact form diagonal body
- top flat arm
- ṭā' ẓā' ascenders
- rounded body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - rounded tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - vertical downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- medial zig-zag denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated short vertical shaft looped rightwards with oblique stroke
- initial / medial two consecutive closed loops
- initial and medial circular loop divided by short vertical shaft
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular pointed head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- stroke placed below the diacritical letter points
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics colour
- red
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics colour
- red
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- small circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- initial ‘ain and ghayn small closed curled eyebrow
- occasional ‘8’ shaped loops in final lām ‘alif or final sīn.
- fā’ one diacritical point below head / qāf one point above head