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Manuscript, Fes (?), 1310-1311, Maghribī Thuluth
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APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Fes (?), 1310-1311, Maghribī Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4054
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Fes (?), 1310-1311, Maghribī Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4054
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Fes (?), 1310-1311, Maghribī Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4054
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_20
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 1310/1331
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Morocco, Fes (?)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Other
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Script
- Maghribī Thuluth
- Color of the Script
- gold
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Rabat, National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, ms. K 2949.
- Type of Object
- manuscript\loose-leaf
- Writing Surface
- parchment
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- gold ink\gold leaf
- Bibliography
- Bongianino, Umberto. “The Re-Endowment of Almohad Qurʾāns under the Early Marinids (ca. 1250–1300 CE).” In Regime Change: New Horizons in Islamic Art and Visual Culture, Christiane Gruber and Bihter Esener ed. Ginko, 2024.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- partial stacking of characters
- one group of characters underpins the next
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- flattened bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
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 triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- high inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- inverse C
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- small circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- trilobe flower
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- Lām-‘alif in a stylized V form with elongated bottom left hook
- fā’ one diacritical point below head / qāf one point above head
- fatḥa placed below the diacritical letter points