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Figure 10.11: An example ofnon-Quiiinic script dated 227 A.H.
Source: R.C. Khoury, Wahb b. Munabbih, Plate PB 9.
Reprinted with the publisher's kindpermission.

Figure 10.11 is a sample half page from Maghii;(f Wizhb bin Munabbih,
from a manuscript dated 227 A.H. Khoury provides a fine list of peculiar
spellings that he encountered in this text,60 a sample of which I have re-
produced below:
Modern Modern Modern
WahbMS WahbMS WahbMS I
spelling spelling spelling
(,,$.J.>:c\ ,1.J.>:ci lti-- 'lti-- 0)1 oi)'
rSL..; ,.j',L..; Jr ,'i r !.lL". !.l,L".
\
(,,$}I i)\ I.>.)1 ,-?,) J; »:
W;, cJJ;, ..:J...;,. J,.\I ,')\.,.II
~
Among the more interesting oddities are the word Jl spelled as J (i.e.
without ~), and 1) spelled as lS) without any dots.
Figure 10.12 is a sample part page from Abu 'Ubaid's Gha'lib al-Hadith.
preserved at Leiden University Library. This manuscript is flooded with
'irregularities' in the skeletal dotting systern.f The letter qiif (j): void of

60 Raif G. Khoury, U0hb b. Munabbih, Otto Harrassowitz - Wiesbaden, 1972, Teil
1, pp. 22-27.
61 This list is not conclusive and is based on the portion shown. De Goeje has
studied this manuscript in detail and observed further irregularities [M]. de Goeje,
"Beschreibung einer alten Handschrift von Abu 'Obaida's Garib-al-hadit", ZDMG,
xviii:781-807 as quoted in Levinus VVarner and His Legacy (Catalogue c!f the commemorative
exhibition held in the Bibliotheca Thysianaftom April 27th tillMay 15th 1970), EJ. Brill,
Leiden, 1970, pp. 75-76]. I thank Prof.]]. Witkam for this reference and the colour
image.