was appointed as the court calligrapher (nisanci, Turkish: nişancı) and he contributed to the kanunname of Mehmed II, a series of laws regularising the Ottoman
lands, especially in Salonica. Bayezid II was the son of Şehzade Mehmed (later Mehmed II) and Gülbahar Hatun, an Albanian concubine. At the time he was
müderris at the NişancıMehmedPaşa (Nişancı Paşay-ı Atîk) Madrasa. In 1630, he was appointed to the Yahya Efendi Madrasa, in 1632 to the Murad Paşa (Murad Paşay-ı