Scroll 12 · Arabic · Mar 2003

Queen's Grace

For Elizabeth O'Byrnne · Outlands Kingdom award (Backscroll, Feast of Fools, 7 Apr 2003)

Source tilework from the Cathedral Mosque of Qus

Design

Arabic, 16th century Egypt. Based upon tilework from the Cathedral Mosque of Qus, as shown in Arabic Art, a reproduction of the 19th century L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire by Prisse d'Avennes. Done on white Pergamenata; the top arch is a light-table tracing of the tilework, with the lower border extending around all sides of the text. The bottom area in the original tilework was a line from the Koran and has been changed to read "Outlands" in this scroll, with the knotwork representing the green and white cord of the Queen's Grace award. This scroll won the non-armigerous backscroll competition at the Heralds & Scribes Collegium, March A.S. 37 (2003).

Hand

Pseudo-Arabic. Arabic style with western characters, from Midrealm's Arabic Exemplar.

Related References

L'art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire — Gallica BnF (full text + plates) — Bibliothèque nationale de France's complete digitization of Prisse d'Avennes' 19th-c. monumental survey of Cairene Islamic art, including the chromolithograph plates Marko worked from.