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Portal, Edirne, 1413-1414, Thuluth
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Balkans_VT_03a
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Edirne, 1413-1414, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4160
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Edirne, 1413-1414, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4160
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Edirne, 1413-1414, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4160
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_03
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 816 H.
- 1413 – 1414
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Türkiye, Edirne province, Edirne
- Present Location
- Eski Cami, Edirne
- Website Link
- http://www.epigraphie-islamique.uliege.be/thesaurus/User/EpigraphyDisplay.aspx?id=1371&pan=1&st=TURQUIE-Edirne*&sc=5
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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أ - (١) قال النبىّ عليه السلام من بنى للّه مسجدا بنى اللّه له بيتا فى الجنّة أمر بعمارة هذا الجامع الشريف السلطان المؤيّد المجاهد
(٢) المرابط منصوب اللواء قاهر الأعداء ناشر العدل و الإحسان على أهل الدنيا السلطان إبن السلطان السلطان غياث الدنيا
(٣) و الدين محمّد بن بايزيد خان خلّد اللّه سلطانه و أوضح على العالمين برهانه فى منتصف شوّال سنة ستّ عشر و ثمانمائة
- ب - (١) قال النبىّ عليه السلام إذا رأيتم الرجل يتعاهد المسجد
(٢) فاشهدوا له بالإيمان تصدى بعمارة هذ(ا) (هذا) الجامع العزيز معمارا
(٣) حسيبا افتخار الصدور الحاجّ علاء الدين دام عزّه العامل عمر بن إبراهيم - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 69 x 212 cm
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Arslan, Hurşit Çetin. “Erken Osmanlı Mimarisinde Bani-Mimar İlişkisi.” Türk Etnografya Dergisi, vol. 20, 1997, pp. 31–32 (texte A) et p. 33 (texte B).
- Aynur, Hatice, et al., editors. Ottoman Inscriptions, http://www.ottomaninscriptions.com/. Inscriptions. Card ID K3758 and 3759. Accessed 1 Mar. 2018.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Osmanlı mimârisinin ilk devri … 630–805 (1230–1402). Istanbul, 1966, p. 159.
- Demiriz, Yıldız. Osmanlı Mimarîsinde Süsleme. Istanbul, 1979, p. 471.
- Dijkema, F. Th. The Ottoman Historical Monumental Inscriptions in Edirne. Leyde, 1977, p. 15.
- Gökbilgin, M. Tayyib. XV–XVI. asırlarda Edirne ve Paşa Livâsı: Vakıflar, mülkler, mukataalar. Istanbul, 1952, p. 196, no. 71.
- Leube, Georg. “Ottoman Building Inscriptions I: Some Context: Two 15th-Century Ottoman Building Inscriptions from Edirne.” DYNTRAN Working Papers, no. 4, Sept. 2015, https://dyntran.hypotheses.org/749.
- Onur, Oral. Edirne: Türk tarihi vesikalarından, kitabeler. Istanbul, 1972, p. 81.
- Peremeci, Osman Nuri. Edirne tarihi. Istanbul, 1939, p. 55.
- Sönmez, Zeki. Anadolu Türk İslâm Mimarîsinde Sanatçılar. Ankara, 1989, p. 388, p. 395.
- Tüfekçioğlu, Abdülhamit. Erken Dönem Osmanlı Mimarîsinde Yazı. Kültur Bakanlıǧı Yayınları/2642, Yayımlar Dairesi Başkanlıǧı-Sanat Eserleri Dizisi/365, Ankara, 2001, p. 112.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - vertical
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial/medial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head tilted left
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
- Image ID Entry
- Balkans_VT_03a
- Description
- Portal, Edirne, 1413-1414, Thuluth
- Photographer
- Vincent Thérouin
- Copyrights Holder
- Vincent Thérouin
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Access Rights
- Public

