Lecture - Nevzat Kaya

Turcksche boucken. The Oriental Collection of Levinus Warner, Dutch diplomat in Istanbul is a collaboration project between Leiden University and Museum Meermanno to mark 400 years of relations between the Netherlands and Turkey. This is the first time for a great many years that a magnificent collection of Oriental manuscripts is on display to the public. The manuscripts were collected by Levinus Warner (c. 1618−1665), the Dutch Republic’s ambassador in Istanbul, in the mid-seventeenth-century.

Dr.. Nevzat Kaya, the former director of the Süleymaniye Library for the Turkish Manuscripts, will give a lecture in honor of the exhibition.   Since 2011 he is works as a manager at the project "Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage in the Balkans". This is a joint project of the Yunus Emre Institute and the Turkish Central Bank.

Admission: free (excl. museum admission). please email your name to aanmelden@meermanno.nl.

This lecture is made possible by the Yunus Emre Institute.