Superprijs Letters in gold – M. Uğur Derman

Letters in Gold accompanies the first international exhibition of Ottoman calligraphic works from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, Istanbul. The seventy-one works constituting the exhibition are discussed and illustrated in color in this volume. Almost every major Ottoman calligrapher working between the fifteenth and early twentieth century is represented. The examples include exquisitely illuminated Qur’ans and prayer handbooks, elegant albums or murakkaalar composed of calligraphic exercises and often decor…