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Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1599, Maghribī mabsūṭ
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Cite
APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1599, Maghribī mabsūṭ (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4060
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1599, Maghribī mabsūṭ.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4060
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Manuscript, Marrakesh, 1599, Maghribī mabsūṭ, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4060
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_26
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 1008 H.
- 1599
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Morocco, Marrakesh
- Website Link
- https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/15112#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2099%2C-179%2C6336%2C3565
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 2:27–35
- Script
- Maghribī mabsūṭ
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- El Escorial, RBME, ms. árabe 1340, f. 4r
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\watermark
- Size (of the object)
- 26.3 x 17.7 cm
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- carbon-based ink (midād)
- Bibliography
- Déroche, François, Martínez de Castilla, Nuria and Tahali, Lbachir. Les Livres Du Sultan: Matériaux Pour Une Histoire Du Livre et de La Vie Intellectuelle Du Maroc Saadien (XVIe Siècle). Peeters Publishers Leuven, Belgique, 2022.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- alif - top left serif
- 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 below baseline
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
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round loop, left stem extended upwards
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) soft triangle on baseline
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
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
- 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