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A script named for one book.
Also known as: Pahlavi Psalter script
The script an Iranian chancery hand known chiefly from a single fragmentary manuscript.
Writes Middle Persian in a hand distinct from the heavily ligatured book script.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Keeps letters distinct that the book hand merges, so it is materially easier to read than its sibling and survives in almost no quantity — the more legible variant is the rarer one.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived joined letters written right to left, less heavily ligatured than the book hand and with more letters kept distinct.