a study of script style in one of the risalah ahkam- e- nojoom manuscript

manuscriptsareconsideredasoneofthemostvaluableculturalandartisticheritagethatfromthebeginninghashadanimportantplacein islamic culture. inonehand, considerationandvaluationofislamicreligionwastowardwritingandreadingandontheotherhand, banonmakingpictureinthisreligion,directedallattentiontotraditionmanuscript.however, inislamicrealm, prescription alongwithwritingquranbecamepopularfromthe eighth/secondcenturyanditwasuseduntiltheendofthepreviouscentury,becauseprintingindustrywasusedinislamiccountriesduetothealtitudeplaceofscript.amongseveralelementsthathaveimportantroleincreatingmanuscript, writtenelementsofscripthasparticularimportancehowever,inmoreresearchesdoneongraphologyofmanuscripts,onlyknownandcommonscriptshavebeenallocatedandunknownscriptshavebeenignored. becauseofthis, byobserving 20 thousandmanuscriptsoflibraryofislamicparliament,finallyrisalah ahkam- e- nojoommanuscripthasbeenchosenwhichisremarkablebecauseofthenewanddifferentfeatureofscriptstyle.unknownand uncommonscripthasbeenwritteninoneofahkam- e- nojoommanuscript (library, museum and document center of iran parliament, no.17225)whichshowsoneofthemissingpartsinthehistoryofislamic calligraphy. inthisarticle,themainhypothesisisaimedtostudythescriptstyleinahkam- e- nojoommanuscriptanditseemsthatgiventosimilaritiesanddifferencesofthisscriptwithnaskhandeastkufic, wecanconsiderscriptstyleinahkam- e- nojoommanuscriptasoneofthespecificmethodsofwritingduringthehistory.thisstudyisdonewiththepurposeofunknownscripttypologyinmanuscriptofahkam- e- nojoomandreachingtotheprobabledateforwritingahkam- e- nojoommanuscript.also,ontheotherhand, it is inspiringforpersiantypedesignerbyanewideaintypedesignandprovidesdifferentcontextsinthisfieldofgraphicdesign.thepresentstudyisallocatedtoexaminevisualfeaturesofunknownscriptintheahkam- e- nojoommanuscriptbycomparative,analyticandhistoricmethod.inthisarticle,thewholestructureandvisualfeaturesofitsletterformswhichrelatetoislamiccalligraphyisconsidered,asaresult,thescriptstyleofahkam- e- nojoomisnaskhscriptthathassomeofthefeaturesof eastkufic. also,thesecondaryhypothesisisconfirmedbyconsideringthecommonfeatureofthisscriptwithotheroldpersianmanuscriptlike al-abniaanhaqayiqal-advia(austriapubliclibrary,no. a.f.340),tarjumanal-balagha (fatihlibraryinistanbul,no.5413),maanikitaballahtaalawatafsirehal-munir (topkapisarayimuseum,no. 209)and tahdidnahayatal-amakinli-tas'hihmasafatalmasakin (fatihlibraryinistanbul,no.3386).itisprobablethatthepresentmanuscriptisdatedtoaboutsixorfivecentury.moreover,similarityinscriptstyleintheaboveexamplescanprobablyconfirmtheexistenceofacommonmethodinmanuscriptoffiveandsixcentury.wehopethatthepresentstudyprovidesbackgroundsformoreresearch.