Matrakçı Nasûh and Tuhfetü'l-guzât

Concise information about the life and works of Matrakçı Nasûh are given; his work named Tuhfetü?l-guzât was transcribed and evaluated. There are three coopies of the work which are registered in Suleymaniye Manuscript Libraries, Esad Efendi Collection, No.2206, Millet Manuscript Libraries, Ali Emirî Askeriyye Collection, No.209 and Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Török No. O.128. Tuhfetü?l-guzât is a soldiering booklet gives detailed information about this topic. Particularly in the sections of the work which describing how to use war weapons in the battle field, military terminology have been used. In this regard, a short list of a small glossary is included at the end of the study to a better understanding of the topic.