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Bad news for Tom Milo
Thomas Milo analysed the best examples of high Ottoman calligraphy =
court calligraphy, synthesized its Grammar (term coined by him) ‒
ignoring all other (lesser) Ottoman calligraphers.
He and his team succeded in aping human writing: first the stroke, then the dots,
at last the additional signs. Like the writers of old, the signs of
each category have to be in the right order,
but they don't have to be exactely above resp. below the character
that they modify.
In Kein Standard I critisized a word in 4:4, where Milo
placed a madda above a consonant, although according to G24
(followed strictly by ʿUṯmān Ṭaha) madda can only sit above a vowel
‒ šadda "lengthening" consonants.
Today I looked at 4:4 again and low and behold, the wrongly placed (blue) madda
was moved to its proper place:
Thomas Milo had to be flexible all the time.
In his view dots belong to letters including its connection to the next
resp. its tail signaling: End Letter.
But the Omanis thought that the dots belong to the "heart" of the letter,
the tooth resp. the defining part.
Milo wanted staked lettergroups, Omanis prefered baseline letters
with a clear right-to-left order.
Milo agreed to half way solutions.
His elektronic Muṣḥaf is marvellous!
But Oman never had it printed. A printed, a bound codex does not exist.
Instead a Muṣḥaf ʿOmān was calligraphed and printed ‒ by the way
not as strictly simplified as ʿUṯmān Ṭaha, hardly less Ottoman than
Milo's electronic muṣḥaf. How disappointing that his did not
became THE muṣḥaf of the sultanat.
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