kufic script

Examples of kufic script in the following topics:

• Islamic Calligraphy

  • The earliest form of Arabic calligraphy is kufic script, which is noted for is angular form.  
  • This early Qur'an demonstrates the Kufic script, the earliest form of Arabic calligraphy noted for its angular form.

• Literature of the Qin Dynasty

  • Li Si is also credited with creating the "lesser-seal" style of calligraphy, also known as small seal script, which serves as a basis for the modern Chinese writing system and is still used in cards, posters, and advertising today.
  • Before the Qin conquest of the last six of the Warring States of Zhou China, local styles of characters evolved independently of one another for centuries, producing what are called the "Scripts of the Six States" or "Great Seal Script".
  • Under one unified government however, the diversity was deemed undesirable as it hindered timely communication, trade, taxation, and transportation and as independent scripts might represent dissenting political ideas.
  • Small seal script is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy that was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by Li Si, prime minister under the Qin Dynasty.

• Cloth Production in Bamum

  • The Bamum people have an indigenous writing system known as Bamum script or Shu Mom.
  • The script was developed by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya in 1896 and is taught in Cameroon by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project.

• Calligraphy during the Six Dynasties Period

  • Wang Xizhi was traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy, and he is considered by many to be one of the most esteemed Chinese calligraphers of all time and a master of all forms of Chinese calligraphy, especially the running script.
  • Written in semi-cursive script, it is among the best known and often copied pieces of calligraphy in Chinese history.

• Indonesian Painting

  • There is a tradition of Balinese painting that uses narrative imagery to depict scenes from Balinese legends and religious scripts.

• Sculpture in Southeast Asia

  • The Pali and Sanskrit languages, Indian script, and Hindu epic literature—such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata—were transmitted to Southeast Asia during this period.

• Nayak Painting

  • The coins also carry inscriptions in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Nagari scripts.

• Art of the Bronze Age

  • Linear B was the earliest Greek writing, dating from 1450 BCE, an adaptation of the earlier Minoan Linear A script.
  • The script is made up of 90 syllabic signs, ideograms and numbers.

• Sculpture in Mesopotamia

  • A cylinder seal discovered in the royal tomb of Queen Puabi depicts two registers of a palace banquet scene punctuated by cuneiform script, marking a growing complexity in the imagery of this form of notarization.
  • On the right hand side of the stele, cuneiform script provides narration.

• Illustrated Books in the Early Middle Ages

  • The Insular majuscule script of the text itself in the Book of Kells appears to be the work of at least three different scribes.