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Manuscript, Fes (?), 1306, Maghribī mabsūṭ
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Maghrib_UB_19a
Cite
APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Fes (?), 1306, Maghribī mabsūṭ (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4053
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Fes (?), 1306, Maghribī mabsūṭ.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4053
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Fes (?), 1306, Maghribī mabsūṭ, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4053
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_19
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 705 H.
- 1306
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Morocco, Fes (?)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 2:176–7
- Script
- Maghribī mabsūṭ
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 2, ff. 58b-59a.
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- parchment
- Size (of the object)
- 26 x 21.5 cm (single folio)
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- iron-gall inks (ḥibr)
- Bibliography
- Rebhan, Helga. Prachtkorane Aus Tausend Jahren : Handschriften Aus Dem Bestand Der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München ( Magnifiques Corans Millénaire : Manuscrits de La Collection de La Bibliothèque d’État de Bavière à Munich). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 1998.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
Letter Morphology
- Point
- teardrop dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- alif - rounded head oriented leftwards
- alif - final ‘alif with spur below the baseline
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - rounded tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long curvilinear tail
- 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
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - open straight bowl on baseline
- ascending bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial accentuated curve to left with rounded head
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round loop, left stem extended upwards
- initial / medial two consecutive closed loops
- final one-eyed (mardufah) soft triangle on baseline
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head
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
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Dagger alif in red
- Curled stem of isolated dal/dhal
- Noose-shaped final mim
- Image ID Entry
- Maghrib_UB_19a
- Description
- Manuscript, Fes (?), 1306, Maghribī mabsūṭ
- Photographer
- Bavarian State Library
- Copyrights Holder
- Bavarian State Library
- License
- All rights reserved
- Access Rights
- Public

