Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nda Yazma Eser ve Ferman Susleme Sanati

243 pp, color figures, pb, Turkish-English bilingual.

This study of Hüseyin Odabaş and Coşkun Polat, who have already provided available contributions to the field of information and records management with a large number of works they have written up together, has to do with the art of manuscript and ferman decoration in the Ottomon Empire. The “Manuscript and Ferman Decoration Art in the Ottoman Empire”, whose English redaction was made by Mustafa Akbulut, and accompanied by nearly200 visual images, is a carefully planned publication that takesreaders and anyone interested to a pleasant journey into the history. In the time of reading this book intending to draw attention to the artistic elements in the Ottoman manuscripts and documents, you can learn about the many arts of decoration from ebru to miniatures as well as obtain new information on visual resources such astughra (sultan's signature) and seal in which every line bearsintense meaningsand that nowadays only a privileged fewand limited group isinterested in. The book, being a reference source forresearchersinterested in the subject, book lovers, and especially manuscript/ bibliomaniacs,has many thingsto say about the state organization, bureaucratic structure and the social order of the Ottoman civilization that inspired many nations, through the fermans, tughras, seals, and other manuscript decoration arts.