Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman

found: Work cat.: The book of felicity, c2007:p. 45 (Manuscript illumination was the main form of Ottoman pictorial art from the 15th to the 19th centuries)

found: Oxford art online WWW home page, July 7, 2007(under Art, Islamic, sect. III, 4: Arts of the book: Painted decoration, (vi) c. 1500-c. 1900, (e) Ottoman empire: the interest of the early Ottoman sultans in the arts of the illustrated manuscript developed greatly after their conquest of Constantinople in 1453; a palace scriptorium was established there in the late 15th century or early 16th and production flourished into the 17th century)