[1] Very little is known about Neşri, which suggests that he was not a major literary figure during his lifetime.
[1] Contemporary sources refer to him with the modest title of muderris (teacher), which further suggested that he did not hold a high office.
[1] He witnessed the death of Mehmed II in 1481 and the Janissary riots that followed it.
Only the sixth and final parts of this work are preserved today.
[2] According to the historian Paul Wittek, Neşri based his work on the early Ottoman historian work of Aşıkpaşazade, a chronological list of the mid-15th century and an anonymous chronicle of the late 15th century, amalgamating the three primary historiographical traditions which were then popular.