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Utheemu Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-COL-004-O-0007)
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Cite
APA
R. Michael Feener, ., & Multia Zahara, . (n.d.). Utheemu Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-COL-004-O-0007) (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4103
Chicago
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. n.d. “Utheemu Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-COL-004-O-0007).”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4103
MLA
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. Utheemu Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-COL-004-O-0007), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4103
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maldives_MF_MZ_12
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Utheemu, Haa Alif, Maldives
- Present Location
- Preserved in the Bodu Thakurufan Memorial Centre on Utheemu, Haa Alif Atoll, Maldives
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'ans
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Remarks (General Identification)
- This manuscript (MAHS-MDV-COL-004-O-0007) is present juz' 17-18 of a Qur'ān kept at the Bodu Thakurufan Memorial Centre. This heavily damaged volume consists of 32 pages of paper without watermark, most of which are slightly bent or frayed along the edges with tell-tale stains of use by readers in the corners where pages would be held when turning. The bottom left corner of the verso of each page is marked with a diagonally written catch-word for the recto of the page that follows. Verses (Ar. ayāt) are separated by simple black circles filled in with red ink. Red is also used for the numbering (written out in full words) of each juz’ on the first page of Qur'ānic text in each volume, indications of quarter and half juz’ divisions, and for reading marks throughout. Black ink used for the main text of the Qur'ān, and for marginal corrections to scribal errors.
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\European paper
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 22 x 17 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 11 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- red ink
- Remarks (Support)
- Utheemu Qur’an 7
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
- occasional
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- deep bowl
- wide deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- semicircular backward tail
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial rounded double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- medial bottom open loop and top closed loop
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- diagonal stroke (40°-45°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles