Or 16166 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

A brief treatise in verse, comprising eleven sections (faṣl), naming and describing the various grips employed by archers for holding the bow.

Neither title nor author's name is given.

A treatise on techniques of archery.

Colophon, f 19r. Copied at Murshidabad, Bengal. The copyist gives the date as Thursday 21 Jumādā l of the regnal year 6.

f 19r, Persian verses; 19v, Dū-baytī;

ff 20r-27v, verses, some by Muḥammad Bāqir, mainly in praise of ‘Alī (some verses on 21r and 27v include letters with four dots and are thus probably in Bengali or Sindhi);

ff 28r-30v, Inchand chīz mūjib-i faqr ast: on actions that bring poverty;

ff 31r-33v, Urdu verses in praise of ‘Alī with the heading Manqibat;

ff 34v-35r, three narrations concerning the Prophet Noah, from three sources: al-Kisā’ī’s Arabic Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā’; Sa‘dī’s Gulistān; and Kamāl-pāshāzāda’s Nigāristān.