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  • An album of excercises in the Ta'lik style by Haci Nazif Bey (1846-1913)
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Calligraphic Museum

Türk Vakif Hat Sanatları Müzesi, Balabanağa Mh., 34134 Fatih/Istanbul, Turkey

Closed on Mondays

Temporarily closed for refurbishment, this little-known museum in an old medrese (school) in Beyazıt Square has a fine collection of late Ottoman calligraphy from mosques and tombs.


For further information, you might want to look at Calligraphic Museum on the ArchNet website.

Cornucopia 16

Words of art

By Tim Stanley


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