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Description: Incendiary arrow (left); bomb (?), pedestal of incendiary cartridges (see Fig. 11) and a ball for throwing from a short midfa' (centre); a midfa' with ball on a carrying stick, and a bomb, gunpowder container, or naphtha jar (qariira) (right).
Title: Arabs gunpowder weapons 1
Credit: Original: An Arabic manuscript from St. Petersburg, copied at the end of 15th century, called "Collection Combining the Various Branches of the Art", also known as Rzevuski MS
Author: Shams al-din Muhammad (according to Reinaud and Fave), unknown (according to Romocki)
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