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AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN BY HAFIZ YUSUF, 18TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3004045

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, gold roundel verse markers, large gilt and polychrome floral marginal 'juz' and hizb' medallions, text within gold and black rules. Surah headings in white thuluth script on cartouches with polychrome floral illuminated ground, two opening bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gilt ground. The last page with dedication and signed 'written by al-Fakir Hafiz Yusuf student of Hafiz Osman'.
In gilt brown morocco binding with flap.
Text panel: 7.5 by 14 cm.
Folio: 12 by 19 cm.

THE CALLIGRAPHER
Hafiz Yusuf was student of Hafiz Osman's School in the six scripts, he studied thuluth and naskh scripts, first with Mustafa Efendi, the imam of the Hasircilar Ocagi, and then following his death, with the famous Ibrahim Rudusi from whom he obtained his license (ijaza). His third calligraphy teacher was Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi.
Hafiz Yusuf Efendi taught calligraphy in many schools and was promoted to the Galata Saray. He was then appointed calligraphy teacher to the court where he taught at the Topkapi Palace until his death in 1787. A qit'a by Yusuf Efendi is in the calligraphy collection of the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul.