This is the first volume of Jan Schmidt's collection of essays on Ottoman history, literature and historiography.

• CONTENTS (page 7)
• INTRODUCTION (page 9)
• Part One Poetry (page 15)
• 1.POETS AND POETRY IN MID-17TH-CENTURY ISTANBUL:ADDITIONS TO THE DIVAN OF FA'IZI BY THE COPYIST YAHYA AND OTHERS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MS TURKISH 81*: 1. Introduction1 (page 17)
• 2. MS Turkish 81; its Copyist and First Owners (page 18)
• 3. Contents: Contributors and Poetical Forms (page 20)
• 4. Contents: Responsive Genres (page 23)
• 5.Nef'i's Satirical Verses (page 29)
• 6. Others Satirical Verse (page 32)
• 2. FAZIL BEG ENDERUNI, SOCIAL HISTORIAN OR POET?* (page 37)
• 3. SUNBULZADE VEHBI'S SEVK-ENGIZ, AN OTTOMAN PORNOGRAPHIC POEM1 (page 49)
• 4. THE POET MEHMED ESREF BETWEEN SULTAN AND SHAH1 (page 75)
• Part Two Historiography (page 107)
• 1. THE EGRI CAMPAIGN OF 1596: MILITARY HISTORY AND THE PROBLEM OF SOURCES (page 109)
• 2. MUSTAFA ALI OF GALLIPOLI, A MORALISTIC LITTERATEUR ON HISTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY OTTOMAN WORLD (page 125)
• Part Three Biography and Autobiography (page 147)
• 1. THE HISTORIAN AS BIOGRAPHER: MUSTAFA ALI OF GALLIPOLI'S BIOGRAPHIES* (page 149)
• 2. OTTOMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTS BY LAMI'I AND OTHERS IN THE COLLECTION OF TURKISH MANUSCRIPTS AT THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (page 157)
• 3. THE ADVENTURES OF AN OTTOMAN HORSEMAN: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF KABUDLI VASFI EFENDI, 1800-1825. (page 167)