The article dwells on the types of script (handwritings) used by secretaries (dabironi devon) of ministries. The author of the article proceeding from the data of reliable originals makes a brief review of the epistolography of genre development in the epoch of the Sasanides, its peculiarities, style and language of the pre-Islamic prose, contribution of dabirs of Iranic origin into the formation and development of Arabic script (craftsmanship). It is ascertained that for epistolography dabirons used different types of handwritings which differed both outwardly and from the point of view of alphabets and characteristic forms of indication to vowels (kharakats).
types of pre-Islamic script, language of letters, ibn Mukaffa, al-Fekhrist-ibn Nodima, “Kitobu-t-tanbekho”, the Sasanides
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