Or 15977

This volume contains a description of archery grounds in Istanbul, Edirne, and elsewhere in the Ottoman territories, and of Sultans and distinguished archers associated with them, and some of the latter’s outstanding feats. No record of a text with this title has been traced in manuscript catalogues.

Begins:

Bu kelimat İstanbul’da ok meydanında evvel ok atıp denmeğe kim bünyad eylemiştir onun beyanındadır ki zikir olunur * ve dahi evvel taş ve onun ardınca dahi kim asur taş değmiştir ve her menzilin evveli [?] ve andan asur ‘ala’t-tertib beyan oluna

Ends:

ve İstanbul’da dahi menzili vardır Cümlesinin ruhları şad ola ve cümle kabza ‘âşıklarıyla bilice (?) gelip geleceklerle bilece.

f 1r and 2r contains owners’ inscriptions including temellüks and recipes, and a ghazal by Fevz. 70r contains the first page of the preface of Kavsname, a treatise on archery, written in nestalik. It is followed by 8 blank folios, suggesting that the scribe intended to copy the whole work. f 33r and 69v contains a large seal impression indicating that the volume was among those dedicated as vakıf by Hüseyin Rıza.

The colophon is on 69v, though it does not carry a date. A likely date for this work is the eleventh or twelfth century AH/seventeenth or eighteenth century CE.