Works describing the rules of manners for shooting arrows, ranges,arrows and bows are called kavsnâme. Originating from the Arabian“kavs” and the Persian “nâme”, kavsnâmes usually narrates about thereligious characteristics of arrow and bow, the way of using arrow andbow, the terms for archery, the sizes and dimensions of arrow and bow,shooting arrows and archers.Turks, have used arrow and bow, which belongs to their ownculture of war, throughout the geography, stretching out from the MiddleEast to Anatolia and from Anatolia to Balkans, by adding thecharacteristics of arrow and bow from the cultures they encountered. Asmolded with Islamic culture, archery gained a religious and motivationalcharacteristic by the hadiths of Prophet Muhammad. According to theIslamic resources, arrow and bow were first given to Prophet Adam.Nevertheless, it was Prophet Muhammad who specifically supported warsports as archery, wrestling, and equestrianism etc. It is known thatthere are approximately 40 hadiths describing the religiouscharacteristics of arrow and bow and the virtues of shooting arrows.Sacred terms existing before Islam about arrow, bow and horse, attractedconsiderable attention as they were supported by the hadiths of ProphetMuhammad, and several works have been translated and copyrightedworks were written about this issue.Cahiz, who lived during the 9th century and who was a writer aboutIslam, tells the mastership of Turks about shooting arrows andequestrianism as follows: “Turk carries his weapon, horse and everythingrelated to harnessing together with him. Turk shoots arrows to the fourwinds on a fast running horse. More than half of the life of a Turk passeson horse; Turk is a shepherd, and a veterinarian, a cavalry and a warrior.”Chaters on arrows and archery were usually studied in sections ofbooks related to horses and equestrianism. Works written in the Islamicworld related to horses and equestrianism were concentrated on twodifferent topics: works related to diseases of horses and their treatmentswere usually written under the title of baytarnâme; works related toequestrianism, archery, and swordsmanship were written under the titlesas kitabu’l-hayl, kitâbul-fürûsiyye, hayl-nâme, feres-nâme, and esbnâme.Hadiths of Prophet Muhammad used in kavsnâmes and also in thisarticle, as “Power means shooting arrows”, “Learn archery andequestrianism”, “Shooting arrows is a salutary game”, “Shoot! Sons ofIsmail, your ancestor was an archer”, “right of a son on his father is tomake him teach Kur’an, writing and shooting arrows”, show theimportance given to archery by Islam. Word of ‘rema’ in Kur’an-ı Kerim,Enfâl 17 was commented as shooting arrows in kavsnâmes.Books of authors as Ebû Hâşim el-Bâverdî, Tâhir-i Belhî, İshâk erReffân,Abdurrahman et-Taberî, Ebû Câ‘fer el-Hîrevî, Ebû Mûsâ Harrâs, Behram b. Bâbek, Kadı Muhiddin were the primary works related toarrow and bow.Books as Hulasa (Kitâb fî İlmi’n-Nüşşâb; Kitâb fî-Riyâzâti’l-Hayl;Kitâb fi’-İlmi’l-Musâbaka), Kavsnâme of Kemânkeş Mustafa Efendi,Telhîs-i Resâilât-ı Rumât (Archery Book) of Mustafa Kânî Bey, TürkOkçuluğu (Turkish Archery), Ok Meydanı ve Okçuluk Tarihi (Arrow Fieldand History of Archery), Türk Okçuluğu ve Sultan Mahmud’un OkGünlüğü (Turkish Archery and Arrow Diary of Sultan Mahmud) areamong the main resources of modern - day Turkish archery. Especiallyin recent years, books about arrow and bow and arrow shows andcontests draw interest. Foundations and associations are beingestablished about archery; the archery clubs in universities areconducting researches.Archery books written in Turkish are prosaic works, in somearchery works parts of poems as beyit and kıta can be found as well.These books are assessed in two groups: works in the first group mentionabout the importance and good deed of shooting arrows, verses of Kur’anand hadiths related to shooting arrows, prophets starting from ProphetAdam and famous archers, ways of holding arrows, types and styles ofshooting arrows, tools used by the archers and ranges of arrows. Worksin the second group contain information about the names of peoplejoining to archery contestations, their shooting distances, ranges,milestones and their owners, abilities of the archers, the places forshooting arrows (as İstanbul, Edirne, Bursa, Gelibolu, and Üsküp).This article is about a Kavsnâme, which has thirty-three sections.It is one of the arrow epistles mentioning about the importance ofshooting arrows and its deeds, verses of Kur’an and hadiths aboutshooting arrows, prophets starting from Prophet Adam and famousarchers, ways of holding arrows, types and styles of shooting arrows,tools used by the archers and ranges or arrows.Kavsnâme is inside a mecmua. Its author and date is unknown. Itis registered under the title of Mecmua-i Resâ’îl at Edirne Selimiye LibraryManuscripts Section with the registration number 533/7. Its language isTurkish and writing style is nesih. Its dimensions are 142x197 and93x150. Kavsnâme is in between the sheets of 105a-141b. There are 11lines. There is an absent index in the sheet of 105b. Even though theindex is absent, in the subsequent sheets it is indicated with red ink thatthere are 33 sections.It is understood that the author used “Kitâbü’r-remy” of Murhif ibn‘Abdü’l-kerîm as a resource which is explicitly indicated in the eight andtwelfth sections of the Kavsnâme.Names of 23 narrators/ravis were mentioned in Kavsnâme. Theirnames are as follows: “Ömer Ebû ‘Ali Hemedânî, ‘Âmir oğlu ‘Uyeyne,Sa‘îd, Sa‘d bin Ebî Vakkâs, Ebû Usâme, Ebû Hureyre, Ayâs bin Selemebinne’l-ekvâ, Hâtim bin İsmâ‘îl, Halîd bin Yezîd, Ebî ‘Abdullâh bin ‘Ubeyd,Câbir bin ‘Abdullâh, İbn ‘Abbâs, ‘Amr bin Şu‘ayb, Mücâhid, ‘Ukbe, ‘Atâbin Rümâh, Ebî Necih, Leys ibnü’l-Hâris, Ya‘kûb, Abdurrahmân,Abdullâh bine’l-Ezrâk, ‘Avf ibni’l-Has