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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Subject Qur'an Place Fouta Djallon, Guinea

1. EAP1245/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1
Title:
Mountaga Ba
Scope & Content:
Mountaga Ba is the current custodian of the manuscripts recorded in his name and collected from the town of Pate Galo (northern Senegal). Ba’s family holding includes 56 small unbound book manuscripts and paper stacks. The material was mainly authored by the custodian’s father, Muhammad al-Ghāli...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Pulaar
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
2042 TIFF images

2. EAP1245/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/3
Title:
MadaniMali
Scope & Content:
Ceerno Madani Tall is the current custodian of the manuscripts recorded in his name and originally collected from Koniakari (Mali). The MadaniMali collection includes 3 unbound and bound manuscripts for a total of 1545 pages. They differ in sizes. One manuscript is originally written by Al Hajj ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1829-1901
Extent:
1148 TIFF images

3. EAP1245/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/3/2
Title:
الرماح حزب الرحيم علي نحور حزب الرجيم
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was composed by Al Hajj Umar Tāl and was completed on the third day of a month of Ramadan of the Islamic year 1244/1230. According to notes from the custodian, the manuscript's completion date is included in the text but is only encoded in the manuscript's title through some Arab...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Mar 1829
Extent:
513 TIFF images