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Mehmed b. Ahmed 16 13.5 16 16 17 17 M father imperial master; registered
during reign of Selim I; head of the
society between 1545 and 1566;
received from the sultan 1,000 akçes
c. 1535; brothers Mustafa, Hasan,
and Hüseyin also employed in the
society; sons Suleyman, Mahmud,
Kara Mehmed, and their sons and
grandsons employed in the society
until after 1623
Mustafa b. Ahmed 2 6.5 9 9.5 13 M registered same date as Hüseyin b.
(Mustafa Çelebi) Ahmed; received from the sultan 700
akçes in 1555/1556; ranked twelfth
with salary of 15 akçes per day in
1596; sons, Bekir and Mehmed,
employed in the society 1596 and
1605; listed in 1552/1553-1555/
1556 as having bound eight Korans
and paid 1,300 akçes*
Osman 1 A
Osman Bosna 5 5 7 M
Suleyman b. 3 3.5 5 M registered 6 Muharrem 965 (29
Mehmed October 1557); head of the society
with 18 akçes per day in 1596
Yusuf-i Rum 1 5 5.5 7 A-M apprentice in 1545; master after
1557/1558

NOTES

1. Meriç 1953, 1954, and 1963.
2. Meriç 1953 no. I; and Meriç 1954, no. I.
3. Meriç 1953, no. II; and Meriç 1954, no. II.
4. Meriç 1953, no. Ill; and Meriç 1954, no. III.
5. Meriç 1953, no. IV; and Meriç 1954, no. IV.
6. Meriç 1953, no. V; and Meriç 1954, no. V.
7. This unpublished document is in Istanbul, Ba§velaket Arsjvi,
D. 6196.
8. Meriç 1953, no. VI; and Meriç 1954, no. VI.
9. Meriç 1953, no. VII; and Meriç 1954, no. VII.
10. Barkan 1979, 69 and 70, no. m.
11. Bayram b. Dervis, illuminated the Koran transcribed by Abdullah b. ilyas
in 1523/1524. See 8.
12. This artist may be the same person as Fadlullah b. Arab who illuminated
two copies of the Enam Suresi in 1506/1507. See Yagmurlu 1973, no. XVIII.
13. Kara Memi's name appears in two manuscripts: the Koran transcribed
by Abdullah Sayrafi in 1344/1345 and illuminated by Kara Memi in 1554/
1555; and the Divan-i Muhibbi transcribed by Mehmed §erif in February -
March 1566. See 14 and 26.
14. Ahmed Feridun Pa§a's Nuzhet el-Esrar el-Ahbar der Sefer-i Sigetvar dated
1568/1569 and Lokman's Tarih-i Sultan Suleyman of 1579/1580 are attributed
to Osman. See 42 and 43.
15. §ahkulu's name appears on two album drawings. See figs. 8 and 9.
16. This artist's name appears in the refurbished Koran transcribed by
Abdullah Sayrafi in 1344/1345; a note in the beginning of the volume states
that Mehmed Çelebi made the new binding in 1555/1556. The binding was
later removed from the work and cannot be identified. See 14.

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