Fine Qur'an ( Quran ) manuscript copied by a well known Ottoman calligrapher (The first known work by him to be exist) مصحف مخطوط بيد الخطاط العثماني المعروف شمس الدين بن سليمان من تلاميذ السيد عبدالله المعروف يدي قوله لى by Shamseddin (Semseddin) bin Suleyman , scribe - 1732

18 x 12 cm , Approx. 1000 p. of buff paper ruled in gold .13 lines to the page . written in naskh script in black ink, verses separated by gold roundels, catchwords, various illuminated marginal devices, surah headings in white against floral gold panels, opening double-page (Ser levha) illuminated frontispiece comprising interlacing split-palmettes against a thick gold ground of vegetation, tooled leather binding with large gold motifs touched in Red . Flap with golden motifs signed : Mihriban Sozer and dated 1947 . Colophon signed by Semseddin bin Suleyman in 1144 H. - 1732 Ad.

The calligrapher came from Sivas in Anatolia to Istanbul where he learned calligraphy from Seyyid Abdullah (Yedi Kuleli) , one the Ottoman calligraphy codec names and took an Ijazah from him . Semseddin was a traveller and a calligraphy teacer in the school of the prime minister Nuh Efendi . He was alive in approx. 1192 when he was an employee in the Rum eli court then Anaboli observatory . He written 25 Qur'ans . ( Mustakim zade : Tuhfe-i Hattatin 227)

Mihriban Sozer Keredin (1912 - 2010) is a Turkish illustrator who learned from Ismail Hakki Altubezer , Yakup Capanoglu and Prof. Dr. Suheyl Unver . She sutdied in the fine art Academy and became an assistant in 1941 . She worked in the Top Kapi Saray as a Miniature and illustration expert . She added a new classic motif methods to the common Ottoman illustrtion methods . She became a well known with her special characters , and participated in several mosques and shrine restoration works in Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa . She also prepared some motifs whish has been used in the Turkish bank notes . (Ketebe)