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Manuscript, Tunis, 1313, Maghribī mujawhar
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APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Tunis, 1313, Maghribī mujawhar (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4055
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Tunis, 1313, Maghribī mujawhar.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4055
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Tunis, 1313, Maghribī Mujawhar, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4055
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_21
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 712 H.
- 1313
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Tunisia, Tunis
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Other
- Nature of the Text
- Diplomatic letter
- Other
- Script
- Maghribī mujawhar
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Cartas árabes, núm. 127
- Type of Object
- manuscript\single-sheet
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\watermark
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- iron-gall inks (ḥibr)
- Bibliography
- García de Linares, Ramón, and Alarcón Santón, Maximiliano. Los Documentos Árabes Diplomáticos Del Archivo de La Corona de Aragón. Madrid-Granada, 1940.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal curving upwards at end
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between groups of words
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl
- Ligature
- Abusive - rā' and hā' / tāʾ marbūṭa
- Abusive - wāw and ṣad
- Abusive - rā’ and ḍād
- Abusive - ‘alif and lām and ‘alif
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - inclined to right
- alif - rounded head oriented rightwards
- alif - final ‘alif with middle loop
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - concave downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep semicircular bowl
- s-shaped deep semicircular bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- ascending bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short rounded denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial accentuated curve to left with rounded head
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round loop, left stem extended upwards
- final simple downward stroke (makhṭufah)
- initial / medial two consecutive closed loops
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- circular head closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
Other
- additional characteristics
- traits of chancellery scripts including fast cursive strokes, lots of abusive ligatures and curves in writing lines, and elongations
- dāl is a short curvilinear line