SIGNED HAFIZ YUSUF EFENDI (D.1787), OTTOMAN TURKEY, PROBABLY THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Hafiz Yusuf Efendi 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.