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Mosque endowment document (MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-0210) from Mathiveri island in Alifu Alifu Atoll.
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APA
R. Michael Feener, ., & Multia Zahara, . (n.d.). Mosque endowment document (MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-0210) from Mathiveri island in Alifu Alifu Atoll. (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4099
Chicago
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. n.d. “Mosque endowment document (MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-0210) from Mathiveri island in Alifu Alifu Atoll.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4099
MLA
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. Mosque Endowment Document (MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-0210) from Mathiveri Island in Alifu Alifu Atoll, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4099
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maldives_MF_MZ_08
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 1236 H.
- 1821
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Mathiveri Miskiyy, Mathiveri, Alif Atoll, Maldives
- Present Location
- Preserved in the National Archive of Maldives on Male, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Endowments (legal property)
- Type of text
- Legal/administrative texts
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Remarks (General Identification)
- A mosque endowment document (MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-210) dated to the 24thyear of the reign of Sultan Muhammad Mu’in al-Din (1236 H. / 1821)
- Type of Object
- manuscript\single-sheet
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\European paper
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- octagonal
- Size (of the object)
- 343 x 64 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 39 lines
- Technique
- written
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- red ink
- Remarks (Support)
- Single-sheet, Mathiveri Miskiyy, 1821
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between words
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - thick vertical shaft
- alif - non serifed
- alif - final ‘alif with top left serif
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short almost horizontal tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
- Short bowl on baseline
- deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles