Information for hornbowyers in Serbia and area
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Bede
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Persian bows are only mentioned in passing. I am reading through Hein's translation of Kani at the moment and I will see if there was more information. Yucel in his book on Turkish archery also has some information on Persian bows as well (in Turkish).
McEwen translated the section on archery in the Adab al-Harb in a 12th century Persian book from India. It discusses bows by region but is quite brief. There is more on North-eastern Iranian bows than on the mainstream because of their proximity to India.
There is also some nineteenth century European observations in Moser's catalogue of his collection, but it is fairly basic.
McEwen is currently translating a section of the Hidayat ar-Rami, which is a Persian manuscript from India in the early 1500s. While there is much that is directly from Persian practice, the book is enriched with much local Indian information. McEwen told me that the problem is in the vocabulary. There was a large number of specialist terms used for materials, particularly woods, that have not made it into dictionaries. It is quite frustrating for a translator. To really understand some of these texts you need to know Persian, Turkish and Arabic. A talent for crossword puzzles would not go astray either.
McEwen translated the section on archery in the Adab al-Harb in a 12th century Persian book from India. It discusses bows by region but is quite brief. There is more on North-eastern Iranian bows than on the mainstream because of their proximity to India.
There is also some nineteenth century European observations in Moser's catalogue of his collection, but it is fairly basic.
McEwen is currently translating a section of the Hidayat ar-Rami, which is a Persian manuscript from India in the early 1500s. While there is much that is directly from Persian practice, the book is enriched with much local Indian information. McEwen told me that the problem is in the vocabulary. There was a large number of specialist terms used for materials, particularly woods, that have not made it into dictionaries. It is quite frustrating for a translator. To really understand some of these texts you need to know Persian, Turkish and Arabic. A talent for crossword puzzles would not go astray either.
Bede