1. For a detailed account of various examples of Ottoman festivities, see And, 2020, pp.21-53.
2. Transliterated versions of these sources have been published by various scholars. For İntizâmî's Sûrnâme-i Hümâyûn, see Arslan, 2009; Procházka-Eisl, 1995; and Boyraz, 1994; for the historical background of this source, see Atasoy, 1997. For Ferâhî's account, see Özdemir, 2016. For Mustafa Âlî's Câmi`u'l-Buhûr Der-Mecâlis-i Sûr, see Öztekin, 1996 and Arslan, 2008. Unlike the other sûrnâmes, Mustafa Âlî's account does not follow the chronological order of the festival but has a thematic structuring. Although there is no information in his book that he made use of any other sources when writing, he did not describe the festival as an eyewitness. In fact, his detailed account of the events shows his competence in accessing sources (Fleischer, 1986, pp.106-107; Öztekin, 1996, pp. 11-12). Recently, another sûrnâme written by a poet named Kadîmî has been identified by Türkan Alvan (2020). It consists mainly of eulogies and odes to theSultan; only some parts are related to the festival of 1582.
3. The Ottoman bureaucrat and chronicler Mustafa Âlî, as one example, associated political failure with the deterioration of high culture and the bureaucratic structure (Fleischer, 1986, pp.214-231).