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Portal, Skopje, 1492-1493, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Skopje, 1492-1493, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4167
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Skopje, 1492-1493, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4167
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Skopje, 1492-1493, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4167
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_10
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 898 H.
- 1492 – 1493
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- North Macedonia, Skopje
- Present Location
- cami of Mustafa Paşa, Skopje
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) هو قد كان جامع الخيرات نور الله روضته به الصلوة قلت فى تأريخ ختامه
(٢) رفع قدره الحق صاحبه مصطفا (كذا) بن عبد اللّه تحريرا اوائل محرم سنة ثمان و تسعين ثمانمائة - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimarî Eserleri: Yugoslavya. Vol. 3, book 3, Istanbul, 1981, p. 264.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. “Yugoslavya’da Türk âbideleri ve vakıfları.” Vakıflar Dergisi, vol. 3, 1957, p. 157.
- Elezović, Gligorije. Turski spomenici. Vol. 1, part 2, Zbornik za istočnjačku istorijsku i književnu građu, Srpska Kraljevska Akademija, Belgrade, 1952, p. 56.
- Pavlov, Zoran. Macedonian Cultural Heritage: Ottoman Monuments. Skopje, 2008, p. 54.
- Yüksel, İ. Aydın. Osmanlı Mimârîsinde II. Bâyezid ve Yavuz Selim Devri (886–926/1481–1520). Vol. 5, Istanbul, 1983, p. 395.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- 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
- Kāf Ascenders
- no top arm and superscript kāf
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
- initial/medial slightly inclined to left
- initial top right serif
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles