Editing Bayezid II (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Sultan Bayezid II tomb March 2008.JPG|262px|right|thumb|Tomb of Bayezid II in [[Istanbul]]]]
Bayezid was praised in a [[ghazal]] of Abdürrezzak Bahşı, a scribe who came to Constantinople from [[Samarkand]] in the second half of the 15th century that worked at the courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II, and wrote in [[Chagatai language|Chagatai]] with the [[Old Uyghur alphabet]]:<ref>{{cite book|title=Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600|year=2005|page=438|author=Harry N. Abrams}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Archivum Ottomanicum 20 (2002)|editor=Gyorgy Hazai|page=113|year=2002|author=Ayşe Gül Sertkaya}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|
I had a pleasant time in your reign my Padishah.

I was without fear of all fears and dangers.

The fame of your justice and fairness reached to China and Hotan.

Thanks to God that there exist a merciful person like my Padishah.

Sultan Bayezid Khan ascended the throne.

This country had been his fate since past eternity.

Any enemy that denied the country of my master:

That enemy's neck had been in rope and gallows.

Your believing servants' faces smile like Bahşı's.

The place of those who walk unbelieving is hellfire.}}

Bayezid II ordered al-ʿAtufi, the librarian of [[Topkapı Palace]], to prepare a register.<ref>Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer, eds. ''Treasures of Knowledge: an Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library'' (1502/3–1503/4), 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2019.</ref> The library's diverse holdings reflect a cosmopolitanism that was encyclopaedic in scope.<ref>Hirschler, Konrad. Review of ''Treasures of Knowledge: an Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library'' (1502/3–1503/4), ed. by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer. ''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association'' 7, no. 1 (2020): 244–249.</ref>