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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1042/32 Subject Islam

1. EAP1042/32

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32
Title:
Issa Diante Manuscipt Collection
Scope & Content:
Issa Diante’s archives consist of nine collections, including seven bilingual Arabic-Mandinka Ajami collections, one bilingual Arabic-Wolof collection, and one collection of classical Arabic texts. The materials deal with an array of religious and non-religious subjects. The documents reflect th...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Mandinka, and Wolof
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
325 TIFF images

2. EAP1042/32/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32/1
Title:
Collection of Bilingual Texts I
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kandoolu Kitaaboolu I. Contains a bilingual Arabic-Mandinka Ajami collection of numerous documents, including personal correspondences, healing and divination techniques, recipes to address multiple local preoccupations using figures and formulas (including how to increase...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
31 TIFF images

3. EAP1042/32/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32/2
Title:
Collection of Bilingual Texts II
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kandoolu Kitaaboolu II. Contains a bilingual Arabic-Mandinka Ajami collection of numerous documents, including two originally translated from Arabic into Mandinka Ajami to help local readers understand their contents in their own language. The documents include papers that...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
47 TIFF images

4. EAP1042/32/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32/3
Title:
Collection of Bilingual Texts III
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kandoolu Kitaaboolu III. Contains a bilingual Arabic-Mandinka Ajami collection of two documents: an incantation genre called Saalaalo in Mandinka, and a bilingual text dealing with marriage. The materials reflect the dual literacy tradition in Arabic and Ajami that is comm...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
5 TIFF images

5. EAP1042/32/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32/6
Title:
Collection of Bilingual Texts VI
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kandoolu Kitaaboolu VI. Contains a bilingual Arabic-Mandinka Ajami collection of numerous documents, including how to wash the bodies of deceased people following Islamic rituals, prayers and sermons, personal notes and contacts, divination techniques, and recipes and inst...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
29 TIFF images

6. EAP1042/32/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32/8
Title:
Collection of Bilingual Texts VIII
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kandoolu Kitaaboolu VIII. Contains a bilingual Arabic-Wolof Ajami collection, which highlights the multilingualism and multiliteracy of the owner, Issa Diante. Diante is a Mandinka native speaker, who is fluent in Wolof. He reads and writes classical Arabic as well as Mand...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Wolof
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
43 TIFF images

7. EAP1042/32/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/32/9
Title:
Collection of Bilingual Texts IX
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kandoolu Kitaaboolu IX. Contains a collection of poems and other documents in classical Arabic dealing with Islamic topics. Some of the documents, which are written on small pieces of paper, include Arabic glosses. Red ink is used in one of the poems for vocalization and t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
41 TIFF images