Arabic manuscript on paper laid down on card in concertina form, 8 album pages, each with one line in bold thuluth script in black ink, and 13 lines of diagonally-written naskhi script or 4 or 5 lines of horizontally-written naskhi script, verse-markers in colours and gold, inner margins ruled in gold, inner and outer margins of marbled paper, some staining, otherwise in good condition, contemporary black morocco with gilt-stamped central medallions and borders, doublures of marbled paper, spine torn
242 x 180 mm.

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Provenance:
The collection of the late Djafar Ghazi.

Osman bin 'Ali, who was better known as Hafiz Othman (d. 1698), studied calligraphy under 'Ali the Elder and Nefes-zade Isma'il Effendi, and in 1694 was made calligraphy teacher to Sultan Mustafa II. He was a member of the Sunbuliye order of dervishes in Istanbul, and is known to have copied twenty-five Qur'ans. There are thirty calligraphic albums by him in the Topkapi Museum and other collections. To him is attributed the invention of the hilyeh, the calligraphic composition comprising the attributes of the Prophet Muhammad.

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A calligraphic album (muraqqa'), copied by Hafiz Othman Ottoman Turkey, late 17th Century

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