A CALLIGRAPHER'S DIPLOMA (IJAZA)

MIR AHMED TAWFIQ EFENDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1266/1849-50 AD

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A CALLIGRAPHER'S DIPLOMA (IJAZA)
MIR AHMED TAWFIQ EFENDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1266/1849-50 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on card, Arabic manuscript on paper, with a large heading in black muhaqqaq outlined in gold above 3ll. of elegant naskh in white clouds reserved against punched gold ground, three polychrome and gold roundels, below this two further oval cartouches with 7ll. and 9ll. of naskh with gilt and polychrome floral margins set on white ground with floral bouquets, inside two coloured gold margins on green and blue ground
12 x 13½in. (30.4 x 34.2cm.)

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This ijaza was submitted by Mir Ahmed Tawfiq Effendi, son of Mir Mustafa Mazlum, the inspector (nazir) of the court of complaints (divan-i daavi). It was approved by al-Haj Mehmet Rushdi, a teacher (hoca), of the Imperial Palace School and by al-Sayyid Mehmet Tahir, calligraphy instructor to Sultan Abdülmecid and student of Mahmud Celaleddin. It appears to have been approved twice, once in AH 1271/1854-55 AD and then in AH 1276/1855-56 AD.

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