Earliest claimed Nastaliq printing; whether the Herkern types constitute true Nastaliq or tilted Naskh remains…
Wilkins Nastaliq Metal Type (Forms of Herkern) is a Nastaliq typeface from India (British Bengal), first documented in 1781.
Hand-cut movable type used for Francis Balfour's 'The Forms of Herkern' (Calcutta, 1781); attributed in recent scholarship to Charles Wilkins as the earliest printed Nastaliq-attributed type.
Earliest claimed Nastaliq printing; whether the Herkern types constitute true Nastaliq or tilted Naskh remains debated in print-history scholarship
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First documented 1781. Origin: India (British Bengal). Evidence grade B. Earliest claimed Nastaliq printing; whether the Herkern types constitute true Nastaliq or tilted Naskh remains debated in print-history scholarship.
Technology: Hand-cut movable type used for Francis Balfour's 'The Forms of Herkern' (Calcutta, 1781); attributed in recent scholarship to Charles Wilkins as the earliest printed Nastaliq-attributed type.
This font is part of the Nastaliq Research Archive — the open, graded history of the Nastaliq script and its typefaces.
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