This album contains the mashqs (exercise sheets) that were prepared by the Calligrapher Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı (1898-1964), a renowned master of calligraphy in Türkiye, for his student and later well-known calligraphy professor, Prof. Dr. Ali Alparslan (1925-2006). The book also contains information on the life and works of the Calligrapher Özyazıcı: he studied at the Calligraphers’ School in Istanbul from 1914 onwards and gained further experience in the diwani and jaly diwani scripts during his services at the Ottoman Imperial Council after 1918. He wrote the mashqs in diwani and jaly diwani from 1958 onwards. These mashqs appear to be the only ones prepared by Özyazıcı for these scripts because neither one was used outside the Imperial Council. These, together with those for riq’a, are collected in this book.
