The classic textbook of Sulus/Thuluth and Nesih/Naskh scripts. This is the benchmark standard of calligraphy instruction, written by one of the greatest of the Ottoman masters, Mehmed Şevkî Efendi. This manual takes the student through the individual forms of the letters, into joined letterforms, and culminates in a series of texts chosen to exposed the student to a range of calligraphic forms. Published by Kubbealti.