<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Part I: Ways and means of searching</strong><strong> </strong>1. <em>Na˙¬re</em>, the will-o’ -the-wisp of Ottoman D¬v®n Poetry. 2. Ottoman modulations: <em>∫azel-i musammaş, murabba‘</em><em>, şarqı</em>. 3. Osmanlı Gazelinin Uzunluğunda Görülen Gelişmeler: 16. Yüzyılda Durum. 4. A Call for More Quantification: The Utility of a Simple Statistical Test. 5. With participants of a seminar of the author: Viyana'dan Muhibbî Divanına Ufak bir Ek ile İmalı Övgü Sanatına İlginç Bir Örnek. 6. Apollinaire’e "öncülük" eden 16. yy. şairi Meâlî: Ağaç şeklinde bir Osmanlı figür-şiiri veya teşcîri. 7. Vulgärer Wortschatz und syntaktische Ambiguität in den satirischen Gedichten des osmanischen Dichters Keğf¬ (m. 945/1538-9).<strong> Part II: Life </strong>8. Beans for a cough, lion’s gall for a laugh: The poet and physician AΩmed¬’s <em>materia</em><em>medica as</em> a mirror of the state of the art around 1400 in Anatolia. 9. With participants of a seminar of the author : Ignorante Ärzte und die Bändigung der Gelüste: Veranschaulichende Gleichnisse in einem türkeitürkischen medizinischen Ms. aus dem Jahre 1460. 10. A Mosaic of Medical Information on the Child in Fifteenth Century Anatolia. 11. Variatio Delectat: An Ottoman Collection of Medicinal and Dyeing Recipes. 12. One does not speak ill of the dead - or does one? Ottoman chronograms on death. 13. Of Cranes and Ducks: Kağızmanlı Hıfzı in the Wake of Karacaoğlan. 14. "O Mohammed, sie sagen wir sind mangelhaft!" — Osmanische Dichterinnen nicht auf den Mund gefallen? 15. With co-author Jan Schmidt: A Cossack Adopted by the Forty Saints: An Original Ottoman Story in the Leiden University Library. 16. With co-author Jan Schmidt: A Rhymed Petition of 1587 by a Deli: A Unique Document Kept in the Groningen University Library (Hs. 486).<strong> Part III: Love, be it religious or worldly </strong>17. With the collaboration of Stefan Lombard: Die religiöse Dichtung des osmanischen Gouverneurs Ferh®d Pa·a (m. 1798). 18. Candid Penstrokes: The lyrics of Me’®l¬, an Ottoman poet of the 16th century. 19. Turkish Delights. 20. The "Language of Flowers" and Ottoman Don Juans <em>(</em><em>zenp®res</em><em>).</em><strong> Part IV: Laughter </strong>21. The <em>Leş®‘if</em> of Faq¬r¬, Ottoman poet of the 16th century. 22.  An Ottoman <em>Laş¬fe</em> of the 16th Century. 23.  Six lampoons out of Faq¬r¬’s<em> Ris®le-i ta‘r¬f®t</em>. 24. The Image in the 16^th Century of Representatives of Science and Technology: Cameos by the Ottoman Poet Fa∆¬r¬. 25. With participants of a seminar of the author: Von Dichtern, Elefanten und Oliven. 26. "O Asinine, Vile Cur of a Fool Called „®t¬!": An Attempt to Show that Unabashed Language is Part and Parcel of an Ottoman "Idiom of Satire". 27. On a Conventional Dimension of 16th Century Scurrilous Ottoman Satire: Keğf¬’s (d. 945/1538-9) <em>hicviyy®t</em>.</p>