Lot 34
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AN OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM (MURAQQA)
AN OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM (MURAQQA)

SIGNED MEHMET RASIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY

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AN OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM (MURAQQA)
SIGNED MEHMET RASIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY
Hadith, Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 4ff., each folio with a line of strong black thuluth above 5ll. of neat black naskh, gold rosette verse markers, indented panels left blank for illumintion, text panels between yellow and gold borders on gold speckled margins, brown morocco edging, first folio with gold floral illumination above and around the bismallah, final folio signed, in brown morocco with gilt stamped central medallion issuing pendants and with gold strapwork borders, doublures in lighter brown morocco with central small concentric circle formed of dots
Text panel 3¾ x 5 7/8in. (9 x 15cm.); folio 6½ x 8 7/8in. (16.2 x 22.6cm.)

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Lot Essay

Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim (d. 1756) was the favourite pupil of the famous Hafiz Osman. He was appointed teacher at the Galata Saray in AH 1126/1714 AD and then at the Topkapi Palace in AH 1150/1737 AD. For his biography see M. Ugur Derman, Masterpieces of Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, 2004, p. 98. For a muraqqa by Hafiz Osman see the previous lot.

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