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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Frage nach Begriff aus der arabischen Kalligraphie | | German term or phrase: Haste, Oberhaste | | „ Die Surenüberschriften zeigen einen mehr nach dem älteren Kufi neigenden, etwas verflochtenen Duktus mit deutlichen Anstrichen von links bei den Oberhasten“. |
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| | stem, ascender | Explanation:
The ascenders in the Kufic script samples I found featured a distinct serif with the slant facing left, which seems to be what is being described in the source text.
http://wortbasar.a2e.de/dat/src/enfr/faqtypo.txt
("Haste" appears under the French column here.)
http://www.graphic-design.ca:16080/~fkassies/typobasic/pdf/l...
"Stem – A major vertical or diagonal stroke in the letterform"
"Ascender – A stroke on a lowercase letter that rises above the meanline"
(In the case of Arabic script, I cannot say whether the ascenders are only found in its lowercase letters, but the typographic feature would be the same.)
I also found some cases where "Haste" was used to refer to a "stroke" (more general), rather than a stem (specific strokes). See, for instance, here:
http://books.google.de/books?id=5yo05AS5Js8C&pg=PR30&lpg=PR3...
Low CL because most of my sources were typographic rather than calligraphic in content.
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  LP Schumacher
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Local time: 08:19
| Grading comment Great help, thanks a lot!
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| Mar 18, 2009 - Changes made by Steffen Walter: | | Field (write-in) | Frage nach Begriff aus der arabischen Kaligraphie => Frage nach Begriff aus der arabischen Kalligraphie |
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