Manuscript, Ceuta, 1202, Maghribī bookhand

Copyrights Holder: CallFront
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: Maghrib_UB_06
Author: Umberto Bongianino
Date: 598 H.; 1202
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: Spain, Ceuta
Language: Arabic
Title of the Document (If Relevant): كمال المعلم
Type of text: Literary texts in prose
Script: Maghribī bookhand
Color of the Script: black
Signature: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī
Signature Role: calligrapher
Remarks (General Identification): Rabat, National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, ms. 933 J, p. 2.
Type of Object: manuscript\codex
Writing Surface: paper\type of paper\oriental paper
Size (of the object): 30 x 20.5 cm
Ruling (Manuscript): Scoring in dry point on the right and left margins and for each individual line.
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.

See the lexicon

wāw descenders: wāw - short curvilinear tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail; rā'/zā' - s-shaped
mīm descenders: convex downstroke
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: deep semicircular bowl
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: semicircular backward tail; opening horizontal
yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders: backward horizontal stroke below baseline

sīn shīn denticles: rounded base denticles with first denticle extended
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial accentuated curve to left with rounded head

additional characteristics: 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; sometimes final dāl short curvilinear tail; Lām-alif inclined shaft of lām with vertical alif