The Kubbealtı Academy Culture and Art Foundation (Kubbealtı Akademisi Kültür ve Sanat Vakfı) was established under the name The Kubbealtı Association (Kubbealtı Cemiyeti) in 1970 taking its current name in 1978. Basing itself upon historically-informed values proper to the Turkish nation its mission is to publish works in scientific intellectual artistic linguistic and social subjects. Published on the occasion of the Foundation's fiftieth anniversary the present catalogue covers 193 manuscripts bequeathed by Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi a founding member as well as three manuscripts left by his sister Sâmiha Ayverdi to her grandson Sinan Uluant.