Medicinal remedy and instructions to heal smallpox, eye infections, and back pain via Arabic recitation and explanations in Bamum script
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 12cm x 9cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Arabic script in black ink and Akauku Mfemfe script in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments:
What belongs to mankind is vanity, what belongs to God is everlasting” in Arabic script with an exact transliteration (not translation) in Akauku Mfemfe script.
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 11cm x 9.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic; Condition: Good; Comments: The translation of the Arabic made by the Bamoun Scripts and Archive Project team. Note that the Bamum script here represents a transliteration of the Bamum, not a translat...
Letter in Arabic script to Nji MAMA from NGUT Ibrahim, of Foumbot; Nji Mama adds his notes in Bamum script and indicates that the letter was received on 4 August 1918 and the Arabic translated for him by Malum Moussa [01 Apr 1905]
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 28cm x 21.7cm; Dates 1918; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script; Condition: Good; Comments:
Prayer from the Surate Al Falaq in the Qur'an transliterated into Bamum language, with sketches (maps?)
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Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 17cm x 10.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe (transcribing Arabic language); Condition: Good; Comments: This is a transliteration of Arabic, meaning that the reader reads the Akauku Mfemfe script and the result is an understandable rendition of the correc...