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

• THE JOYS OF PHILOGOY. STUDIES IN OTTOMAN LITERATURE, HISTORY AND ORIENTALISM (1500-1923) (page 5)
• CONTENTS (page 7)
• Part One Orientalists (page 9)
• 1. AN OSTRICH EGG FOR GOLIUS. THE HEYMAN PAPERS PRESERVED IN THE LEIDEN AND MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND EARLY-MODERN CONTACTS BETWEEN THE NETHERLANDS AND THE MIDDLE EAST1 (page 11)
• 2. FRANZ VON DOMBAY, AUSTRIAN DRAGOMAN AT THE BOSNIAN BORDER 1792-18001 (page 77)
• 3. CHRISTIAAN SNOUCK HURGRONJE IN ISTANBUL (1908): LETTERS AND AN UNKNOWN DIARY PRESERVED IN THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY1 (page 155)
• 4. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUSSHEIM PAPERS FOR MODERN TURKISH HISTORY* (page 183)
• 5. KARL SUSSHEIM AND THE BAVARIAN POSTAL CENSORSHIP DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR1 (page 199)
• 6. FRANZ TAESCHNER'S COLLECTION OF TURKISH MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (page 239)
• Part Two Travellers and Merchants in the Ottoman Empire (page 269)
• 1. OTTOMAN HAJI MANUALS AND THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MS TURKISH 88* (page 271)
• 2. THE TRAVEL NOTES OF A DUTCH PASTOR IN ANATOLIA 1717-1727* (page 281)
• 3. DUTCH MERCHANTS IN 18TH-CENTURY ANKARA* (page 303)
• 4. THE RETURN JOURNEY OF BARON VAN DEDEM VAN DE GELDER, DUTCH AMBASSADOR TO THE SUBLIME PORTE, IN 1793 (page 331)
• 5. DUTCH OPIUM DEALERS IN THE LEVANT, 1820-19401 (page 401)
• Part Three Political Relations Between Europe and the Porte (page 417)
• 1. FRENCH-OTTOMAN RELATIONS IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD AND THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MSS TURKISH 45 & 46*1 (page 419)
• 2. "SHOWING THE FLAG"; THE DUTCH NAVY IN OTTOMAN WATERS* (page 477)
• 3. THE HERKLOTS AFFAIR, 1893: A CASE STUDY IN CAPITALISM AND POWER POLITICS IN THE HIJAZ* (page 553)