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Berbernest

The Lantern Page

Illuminated frontispiece · Manner of the fifteenth century · Fez

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Fez · Manner of the fifteenth century

Prodigi Classic Black frame corner photograph

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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A Marrakech salon
The Lantern Page

About this composition

The hanging mosque lamp at the centre of a frontispiece is why these pages are warm rather than cool: everything around it is built to make gold look lit. The motif comes from the lamps themselves, pierced brass hung on chains, which throw exactly this kind of light.

Gold, lamp amber, deep ground

A living tradition

Read the cultural provenance

This comes from a craft people still practise. It is nobody's private property and it is not nobody's work either: it was copied, over centuries, by scribes in madrasas whose names survive on very few of the pages they made. We say so rather than call it anonymous.

A contemporary Berbernest composition. Save it to revisit while prints are unavailable.