Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Commentaries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/18/94
Title:: [Damaged printed documents e.g. religious commentaries in Latin from Rome published in the year 1922, up to 1946. ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 564 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-27.2cm, W-21cm, D-3cm. Condition of original material: Badly rat-eaten.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1922-1946
Extent:: 254

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/4
Title:: العيد في كوار
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a qasida composed by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. The manuscript opens with a text of acknowledgement dedicated to God, Prophet Muhamad and his sahaba (companions). It is a praise description of the author's beautiful experience during the celebration of Eid al fitr (end-of-Ramadan f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 May 1989
Extent:: 4 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/9
Title:: قصاءد لشيخ محمد الغالي با
Scope & Content:: This volume contains seven poems handwritten by Muhammad al-Ghāli Ba. According to the author's son, Mountaga Ba, the poems were probably composed in the mid-1970s a time when the author lived in Mauritania, while working at the country's national radio station and serving as a special counsel t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 1970s
Extent:: 61 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/14
Title:: قولوا معي
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains writings by Muhammad al-Ghali. It has four qasida poems and 2 speeches written in Nouakcott, Mauritania. The first qasida reflects on the acquisition of independence in Mauritania, which the author portrays as a liberation era for Mauritanian people. The second qasida tal...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1968
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/42
Title:: إتوبتو واجيباتون
Scope & Content:: This document is a commentary composed by an unknown author. It discusses mandatory forgivess in Islam as something that worshippers must seek. Ce document est un commentaire composé par un auteur inconnu. Il traite du pardon obligatoire dans l'Islam comme quelque chose que les fidèles doivent ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 8 TIFF images

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/3/1
Title:: باب وهو جزء الثاني من المجموع
Scope & Content:: This is a handwritten copy by one of the followers of Al Hajj Umar Taal. It is a copy of a book originally written by Muhammad bun Muhammad bun Al-Masrī. The place of writing is not mentioned. The manuscript is the second volume of a previous volume. The content of the manuscript is diverse. It ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Apr 1898
Extent:: 290 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1260/1
Title:: சிவகுமாரி கிருஷ்ணராஜா சேகரம்
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 25 files. The content of the collection ranges from ancient medical texts to Tamil grammatical works. Extent: 3594.0. Custodial history: Original was probably from Kayts. The known earliest owner was Erambu Sethukavalapillai. His leaves was passed on to Satkurunathan P...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1800-1850
Extent:: 3594

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1260/1/8
Title:: திருவிளையாடற் புராணம்
Scope & Content:: This material is a Tamil palm-leaf manuscript from Kondavil, Sri Lanka. It is written in Tamil verse in the period of 1800-1850 in Tamil script. The original text is written by Parañcōti Muṉivar and is one of the ancient Hindu puranas/ mythological stories centred around Madurai. The orginial t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1800-1850
Extent:: 58

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