Karaman and Silifke in tears: four couplets from the chapter where Bayezid takes Taraklı Borlu and Kastamonu, leaving İsfendiyar only the district of Sinop.
Taharten of Erzincan, whose wife, son and daughter were held hostage, speaks in five couplets from the chapter on Yıldırım Bayezid's taking of Amasya and Sivas.
The world never keeps one form: two couplets headed "Diger nazm" that close the chapter on Yıldırım Bayezid's taking of Amasya, Sivas, Erzincan and Malatya.
Deportation as law: Saruhan nomads who ignored the salt ban are moved by Bayezid's son Ertuğrul to the Plovdiv district as the Sarhan Beglü, in three couplets.
A reproach in two couplets to Taharten, the lords of Germiyan, Aydın and Menteşe and İsfendiyar's envoy, who fled from Bayezid to Timur and incited him against Anatolia.
The Anatolian lords who fled from Bayezid to Timur tell how they lost their wealth, families and homes, in six couplets headed "Diger nazm".
Timur's advance into Anatolia in six couplets headed "Diger, bu da nazm": oppression covering the world, lawful and unlawful mixed, people in flight, gold turned to copper.
Ankara in four couplets and a witness: Bayezid captured, Mehmed withdrawing to Amasya with its troops, and the author's informant Koca Nâyib made warden of Amasya.
Timur, worse than an infidel, winters in Aydın, destroys hospices, mosques and medreses and returns the lands to their old lords; Bayezid dies at Akşehir. Five couplets.
Emir Süleyman, sunk in drinking parties and overthrown by Musa, is rebuked in three couplets; earlier Mehmed Çelebi had sent him envoys from Amasya.
Musa Çelebi takes the throne in Rumelia while Mehmed Çelebi, hearing in Amasya of Emir Süleyman's death, comes from there to Bursa: two long-lined couplets.
Fratricide traced back to Cain and Abel, in the chapter where Mehmed Çelebi defeats Musa at Samakov; here the author tells how he lay sick at Yahşı Fakıh's house in Geyve.
The enemy's fortune is black: while Mehmed Çelebi is in Rumelia, the lord of Karaman besieges Bursa for thirty-one days against Hacı İvaz Paşa and flees when Musa's body arrives.
On fortune and opportunity: Emir Süleyman's son in Constantinople crosses to Yanbolu with his tutor, is captured, blinded and sent to Bursa. Three couplets.
Friendship with khans, in two couplets: before his Karaman campaign Mehmed Çelebi asks İsfendiyar for troops and Germiyan for supplies, which arrive in plenty.
A seven-couplet satire on Karaman: Mehmed Çelebi captures its lord and his son on the plain of Konya and makes peace, only for the lord to declare his enmity eternal.
The treacherous wheel, in six couplets: Mehmed Çelebi builds Giurgiu and makes Wallachia tributary, while İsfendiyar's son Kasım Beg stays in Ottoman service.
On change, in four couplets: while Prince Murad is in Amasya the infidels burn Samsun, and Mehmed Çelebi marches via Merzifon to take Muslim Samsun from Hızır Beg.
From buttermilk to raiding: returning from Samsun, Mehmed Çelebi sees Minnet Beg's Tatars at İskilip and moves them to the Plovdiv district, where Minnet's son becomes a raider.
False Sufis mocked in six couplets, after Börklüce Mustafa plays the prophet at Karaburun, is crushed by Bayezid Paşa and Prince Murad, and the kadı's son claims power.
A scholar who sought rule: the son of the kadı of Simavna is seized, brought to Mehmed Çelebi at Serres and hanged on Mevlânâ Haydar's ruling. Four couplets.
Lying Sufis who chase pilaf and feasts are mocked in four couplets, once the question whether the kadı's son of Simavna died in the faith is answered "God knows".
Signed Âşıkî, four couplets from the chapter in which Mehmed Çelebi takes Hereke, Gebze, Tarucılar, Pendik and Kartal to endow his Bursa imaret; his reign ends in 824.
A time of transition in five couplets: Mehmed Çelebi's death is hidden for forty-one days, the physician Gûrdüzen makes the dead man stroke his beard, and Murad is awaited.
Music for a new reign: Murad takes the throne at Bursa and, once Mehmed Çelebi's body is seen, the lords of İzmir and Menteşe stir and are calmed by envoys.
İzmiroğlu is warned in four couplets: the Pretender Mustafa wins over Rumelia, and Bayezid Paşa, after kissing his hand, is put to death at Sazlıdere.
On lying: Mihaloğlu, freed from prison in Tokat, takes the author along from the Elvan Çelebi tekke, and a forged letter makes the Pretender and İzmiroğlu flee.
A prayer in Murad's voice, four couplets long: the Pretender bribes the kadı of Biga to cross, hauls the Gallipoli ships ashore, and Murad is held up at Lapseki.
A false prince's end: Murad crosses to Rumelia from Ece Ovası on an infidel ship, and the Pretender Mustafa flees Edirne, is caught and hanged from a tower there.
Pacts and raids: with Murad settled at Edirne, envoys go to the Serbian despot and the tekfur of Constantinople, and Evrenezoğlu and Firuz Beg are sent raiding.
A treacherous tutor: Murad's young brother Mustafa settles at İznik while the paşas secretly promise his tutor Şarabdar İlyas a governorship. Six couplets.
On fratricide, in ten couplets: Murad reaches İznik in nine days, Mihaloğlu is killed, and young Mustafa is seized, strangled and buried in Bursa.
Murad challenges İsfendiyar: having crushed his enemies he disperses his viziers, Amasya goes to his tutor Yörgüç, and İsfendiyar marches on Taraklı Borlu.
The world as a garden of heedlessness: Murad defeats İsfendiyar before Borlu, İsfendiyar offers his daughter for peace, and the paşas are won over with "red florins".
A lord unwilling to be dyed in his own blood: Dracul plunders across Silistra, Murad looses Firuz Beg on Wallachia, and Dracul brings his two sons to the Porte.
The Serbian and Hungarian borders named in three couplets: Murad marches on Albania, marries İsfendiyar's daughter at Bursa, and the despot imprisons Delü Paşa.
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