Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 Vols) Volume I: Essays / Volume II: Transliteration and Facsimile "Register of Books" (Kitab al-kutub), MS Török F. 59; Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gy jtemény (Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Gülru Necipoğlu (PhD, Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. Her books include Architecture, Ceremonial and Power: The Topkapı Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1991), The Topkapı Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995), and The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005). She recently edited The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures (2017) and A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series (co-editor F. Barry Flood, 2017).
Cemal Kafadar (PhD, McGill University, 1987) is Professor of History and the Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies in the History Department at Harvard University. Among his publications are Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995); a volume of essays on four "ordinary lives" and on autobiographical writing (in Turkish, 2011); and "A Rome of One's Own: Reflections on Cultural Geography and Identity in the Lands of Rum," Muqarnas 24 (2007) (expanded version published as a book in Turkish, 2018). He has also edited (with Halil Inalcik) Süleyman the Second and His Time (1995). His 2014 article on "the history of coffee and the nighttime" is the subject of a current book project.
Cornell H. Fleischer (PhD, Princeton University, 1982) is the Kanuni Süleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies in the departments of History and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A 1988-93 MacArthur Fellow, he is the author, among other publications, of Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali(1986); "The Lawgiver as Messiah," in Soliman le magnifique et son temps (1992); "Ancient Wisdom and New Sciences," in Falnama: The Book of Omens (2009); and "A Mediterranean Apocalypse: Prophecies of Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," JESHO 61 (2018). He also supervised post-Dayton Accord elections in the former Yugoslavia, 1996-98.