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Manuscript, Tunis, 1439, Maghribī mabsūṭ
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APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Tunis, 1439, Maghribī mabsūṭ (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4058
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Tunis, 1439, Maghribī mabsūṭ.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4058
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Tunis, 1439, Maghribī mabsūṭ, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4058
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_24
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 843 H.
- 1439
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Tunisia, Tunis
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- صحيح البخاري
- Type of text
- Other
- Script
- Maghribī mabsūṭ
- Signature
- Ibrāḥīm Ibn Abī ʿUryān (or ʿIryān?)
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Süleymaniye Library, ms. Ayasofya 832, ff. 4b-5a
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\oriental paper
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- iron-gall inks (ḥibr)
- blue ink
- red ink
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- alif - rounded head oriented leftwards
- alif - final ‘alif with spur below the baseline
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail ending in hairline
- mīm descenders
- convex downstroke
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- 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
- isolated one-eyed round loop, right stem extended upwards
- initial / medial two consecutive closed loops
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- horizontal stroke
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- sād/ḍād, large swollen loops
- isolated and final dāl and dhāl concave downward stroke looping backwards and final spur
- initial ‘ayn and ghayn with large curled eyebrow
- length of ascenders adjusted diagonally
- abreviation of akhbarana with ‘alif shaft waving to left
- Deliberate use of mad for hadathana