Creator
Mehmed İzzet Efendi.
Title
[Ottoman Calligraphies (خطوط عثمانية).
Coverage
Istanbul:
Publisher
Osmanh Kutuphanesi,
Date
1323 AH (1905/1906 CE).]
Description
Though the new planographic technology of lithography was used primarily for pictorial and cartographical texts in Europe, in Arabic-speaking regions it flourished after the 1820s as the main process by which hand-written texts were reproduced in the form of books and newspapers. This writing manual by the Turkish calligrapher Mehmed İzzet Efendi (1841/1842–1903) is printed via lithography. It includes instructions about how to write in several different Arabic scripts whose intricate forms would be difficult to reproduce via metal moveable type.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School