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Berbernest

The Study Hand

Maghrebi script · Manner of the fourteenth century · Fez

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Fez · Manner of the fourteenth 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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The Study Hand

About this composition

Maghrebi script rounds where the eastern hands angle: the descenders sweep into deep bowls, the fa and qaf are dotted the other way round, and the line sits lower than a Cairo scribe would set it. It is written with a pointed nib rather than a chisel-cut one, which is why it looks drawn rather than built.

Ink, gold leaf, aged paper

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.