Joy for some, grief for others: Murad's two young brothers are imprisoned and blinded in Tokat, his sisters married to the lords of Karaman and İsfendiyar.
Seven of the author's forebears lived alongside the Ottoman dynasty, says the last of five couplets on Aydın and İzmiroğlu Cüneyd shut in İpsili.
With "Hamza" as refrain: Hamza Beg defeats İzmiroğlu Cüneyd before İpsili, brings him out under oath, and Yahşı Beg avenges his brother on Cüneyd and his son.
Imprisoned princes speak in three long couplets: Veys and Ahmed of Menteşe, sent to Tokat, are first given a timar and then shut in Tokat castle.
Escape in a sack of straw: the Menteşe prince Ahmed Beg is smuggled out of Tokat castle while his brother Veys stays behind, and flees to Egypt and Persia.
A feast that ends in mourning: the Kızılkocaoğulları, who cut the roads of Amasya and Tokat, are lured to Amasya by Yörgüç Paşa, seized at a feast and killed.
On planning: after the Kızılkocaoğulları are killed in Amasya, Yörgüç raids the Turkmen camps around Çorumlu and the question is asked whether these men had sinned.
The last three couplets of the chapter: the Kızılkocaoğulları used to call in the lords of Dulkadır and Karaöylük, and with their removal Amasya found peace.
A hundred years' supplies burned in a night: Haydar Beg of Kocakayası yields to Yörgüç after Tayfur Çelebi, who claimed Elvan Çelebi's line, fires the stores.
The bird that alights flies off: Yörgüç Paşa seizes Alparslanoğlu of Canik and keeps his family under guard in Amasya, but the captive escapes from Bursa by rope.
Never trust an infidel's pact, warn three couplets: the Serbian despot hinders İshak Beg's raids, Murad takes back his grant, and the despot offers his daughter.
Murad's designs on the Morea and Hungary, in five couplets: Salonica falls in a moment in 833 (1430) at his cry "the fortress is booty, gazis".
The zeal of the gazis, in four couplets: Karaman allies with Hungary, the Hungarians besiege Golubac, and Sinan Beg and Sinan of Vidin rout them by the Danube.
A ruler biding his time: the despot's daughter is brought to Edirne, but Murad holds no wedding, saying an infidel's daughter needs none, and returns her dowry.
The sign a man leaves: Evrenezoğlu Ali Beg raids Hungary for a month, returns saying the captives outnumber the raiders, and urges the khan on. Five couplets.
The Ottoman line from Gök Alp to Murad, in five couplets: in 840 (1436-37) Murad crosses from Vidin into Hungary and raids for forty-five days as far as Sibiu.
The martyrs' passage to the palace of permanence: Evrenezoğlu İsa Beg's raiders fall in Albania on roads cut by İskender, once the khan's page, now in rebellion.
Belgrade addressed in three couplets: Murad raids across the Sava, and the author, on campaign himself, tells how he bought captives and was given money and horses.
Long-lined praise of the Ottomans: Smederevo falls in 841 (1438), and the author says he came back from Mecca with İshak Beg and took five captives raiding.
Germe as the gate of a treasure: the wall at the entrance to the Morea is battered with cannon and sacked, and the author calls it the first conquest of the Morea.
Karaman as the infidel's helper: Kula Şahin crosses drunk into Wallachia and is first to flee from the Hungarians, and the lord of Karaman exults and plunders Emirdağı.
Envy at the root of mischief: Murad lays Karaman waste, its lord sends his wife and vizier Sürûr to beg pardon, and the author blames Ottoman harshness on Karaman.
Good sons and bad: Murad seats his son Mehmed on the throne in his own lifetime, and the despot's sons imprisoned in Tokat are blinded and sent back to their father.
Praise of the dynasty after Varna (848): the Hungarian king falls from his horse and is beheaded, Turahan Beg is freed from Tokat and Murad takes the throne again.
The author's line, Yahya, Selman, Âşık, Muhlis and İlyas, named in couplets on the second Kosovo (852), where he says he slew an infidel and won a horse.
Murad II praised as a lord of the conjunction whose sins are forgiven: four couplets headed "Nazım", after the second Kosovo victory is dated 852 (1448).
On royal generosity: Murad sends Hızır Ağa's wife from Amasya to Elbistan to choose a Dulkadır bride for his son Mehmed and holds the wedding at Edirne.
The world as a chessboard, in eight couplets signed Âşıkî, just after the author says Murad II married his son, married off his sisters and came to a good end.
Seven couplets under the heading "Devr-i Sultân Muhammed", announcing Murad II's death and the beginning of the Conqueror's reign, calling on Mehmed and mocking the house of Karaman.
Seven couplets on the Conqueror's accession: Murad II's death is hidden for thirteen days, Mehmed takes the throne at Edirne, and Karaman repents and gives a daughter.
Five couplets on the just khan, in the chapter where conquered Constantinople is resettled, a rent drives people away, and the Conqueror builds a mosque and medreses.
Three couplets under the heading "Ve-lehu", where the rent imposed on Constantinople drives people away, saying that the evil a man does comes back to him.
Three couplets aimed at a ruler's changing word and a vizier of infidel birth, where the author names Rûm Mehmed as the cause of the rent in Constantinople.
Three couplets signed Âşıkî on the taking of Enez: Has Yunus Beg sails into its harbour with ten galleys, the Conqueror comes by land to İpsala, and the tekfur surrenders.
Five couplets saying that whoever will not pray for the dynasty wears a stone for a cap, after Novo Brdo falls and the Conqueror feasts at Kosovo where Murad I fell.
Three couplets on the Conqueror's siege of Belgrade in 861 (1456), where his uncle Karaca Beg is killed, the Rumelian lords hold back, and the sultan charges himself.
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