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Portal, Sarajevo, 1537-1538, Thuluth
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APA
Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Sarajevo, 1537-1538, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4178
Chicago
Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Sarajevo, 1537-1538, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4178
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Sarajevo, 1537-1538, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4178
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_21
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 944 H.
- 1537 – 1538
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton, Sarajevo
- Present Location
- madrasa of Gazi Husrev Bey, Sarajevo
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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قد بنى هذا البنا للطالبين / حسبة للّه معطى السائلين
غازى خسرو أمير ذى الجهاد / منبع إحسان فخر العادلين
قال فيض الربّ تأريخا له / مجمع أبرار دار الكاملين - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 60 x 180 cm
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimarî Eserleri: Yugoslavya. Vol. 2, book 3, Istanbul, 1981, p. 348–B.
- Mujezinović, Mehmed. Islamska epigrafika u Bosni i Hercegovini: Sarajevo. Vol. 1, Sarajevo, 1974, pp. 295–297.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- Initial /medial compact form diagonal body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- closed looped tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- elongated open straight bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- hā' counters
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle