Four couplets that tell the deaths of Osman Gazi and his father-in-law Edebali as a "campaign", built on the image of an eight-legged mount and a journey with no return.
Four couplets on Orhan and his brother Alâeddin Paşa remaining united without dividing Osman Gazi's legacy, saying that wars were not fought for captives.
After Osman Gazi's modest legacy comes a second piece headed "Velehu eydan": five couplets saying the world is made for coming and going and creation is for worshipping God.
Four couplets saying that Orhan Gazi took counsel from his brother and prayers from the saints, and that Âşık Paşa prayed for him: the author placing his own ancestor in the founding story.
Akça Koca and Konur Alp die, İzmit surrenders and Kocaeli, Konrapa and Bolu are won; the chapter ends with three couplets addressed to those who say "mine".
Three couplets on the orders man sets up in the world and the intention behind them, opening the chapter on the customs Orhan Gazi introduced after his father.
Orhan Gazi's white cap, Çandarlı Kara Halil, the foot soldiers and the twisted turban are described, and three couplets look at the ever-changing face of the world.
An eleven-couplet mesnevi on the Greek women who came to the garden of Ebkülos after İznik surrendered to Orhan in 731 (1331), and on their marriage to the gazis.
Four couplets praising the sermon read in Orhan Gazi's name in İznik, where he made a church a mosque and opened the soup kitchen himself, naming Âşık Paşa.
Four couplets on the covenant between God and man, after the tekfur of Ulubat, who did not keep his pact, is killed on the Karasi campaign that began with the death of Aclan Beg of Karasi.
The Karasi heir flees to Bergama, his brother is shot before the fortress and Karasi passes to Orhan in 735 (1335), all told in four couplets in the language of chess.
Three couplets on a land filled with saints: the sermon and coinage of Karasi pass to Orhan, the Karasi heir dies of plague in Bursa and Süleyman Paşa is given Karasi.
A dervish from near İnegöl plants a poplar at the palace gate and prays for Orhan Gazi and his line; three couplets on the power of prayer follow the story.
Three couplets on Süleyman Paşa crossing on a raft from Aydıncık to the Rumelian shore, taking Çimbini and Ayaşolonya and founding the Gallipoli frontier.
Süleyman Paşa asks Orhan for settlers, nomad households from Karasi cross over and the advance turns to Tekirdağ, in four couplets that play on the name Süleyman.
Two couplets closing the chapter in which the tekfur of Konur is ambushed and the fortress surrendered, Gallipoli is taken by agreement and Yakub Ece and Gazi Fâzıl are given lands.
Süleyman Paşa dies in a fall from his horse while hunting in 758 (1357), Orhan Gazi soon after; the transience of the world is the theme of the four couplets that follow.
Five couplets on reason, patience and anger, in the chapter where Murad Han, after his brother's death, crosses to Rumelia, takes Banatoz, Çorlu and Misini and burns Bırgoz.
Raiding by night from a small fort on the Maritsa, Hacı İlbegi traps the tekfur of Dimetoka and takes the town while Gazi Evrenez takes Keşan: four couplets.
Four couplets after Lala Şahin routs the infidels before Edirne, the tekfur flees down the Maritsa by boat to Enez and Edirne surrenders to Murad Han in 761 (1360).
One captive in five is levied through Kara Rüstem and Çandarlı Halil, and the boys learn Turkish among Turks before becoming janissaries; two couplets define their role.
Eight couplets ending with the pen name Âşıkî on the great wedding at which Murad Han married his son Bayezid to the daughter of the lord of Germiyan, where Evrenez offered a hundred slaves.
The party that fetched Bayezid's bride from Kütahya, Paşacuk Ağa's passing into Ottoman service and the handing over of Kütahya, followed by five melancholy couplets.
Six couplets on a ruler's breath: Polanya, which Murad Han could not take, collapses after he says "perhaps God will pull it down" and is named "God-Felled".
Seven couplets with the refrain "iklîm" praising Hayreddin Paşa's ordering of affairs, as he and Evrenez take Büre and İskete and Lala Şahin takes Kavala and Serres.
Kara Temür Paşa, governor-general after Lala Şahin's death, moves the Saruhan nomads to Serres and marches on Manastır, while four couplets foreshadow Kosovo.
Six couplets in the section where the Serbian king Lazar summons Murad Han with his sons to Kosovo, and Murad sets out with Bayezid and Yakub Çelebi, prays on horseback and pleads with God.
Four couplets signed Âşıkî after the account of Kosovo: Miloš Obilić kills Murad Han as if coming to kiss his hand, Yakub Çelebi is put to death, Bayezid rises.
Four couplets on the mines, in the chapter where Bayezid, after his accession, gives the mines of Kratovo in Serbia to Paşa Yiğit Beg and builds a mosque, medrese and hospital in Bursa.
Bayezid takes Alaşehir by agreement and annexes Aydın, Saruhan and Menteşe, conquests said to be made through justice; five couplets signed Âşıkî follow.
Three couplets: Bayezid leaves his first siege of Constantinople to rout the Hungarians near Alacahisar, a battle the author heard of from Umur Beg himself.
Bayezid builds Güzelce Hisar, the tekfur sends gold hidden in fish and a Muslim quarter with a kadı is set up in the city; six couplets turn to the wheel of fortune.
Three couplets on exile in the short chapter where Bayezid takes Nicopolis and Silistra, sends raiders out from Karaferye and builds soup kitchens there.
Lazar's daughter is given to Bayezid, who learns the ways of the drinking party from her with Ali Paşa's help; four couplets on how the Ottomans took to wine.
Bayezid wants to burn the corrupt kadıs, an Arab jester saves them with a joke about monks and their fees are fixed; three couplets draw the lesson of the anecdote.
A just khan is a saint, say these four couplets: on Bayezid's Karaman campaign Konya opens its gates after his army buys barley fairly, and Aksaray and Niğde surrender.
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