Antidote for snake bite along with a Muslim prayer
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 8cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil and native black ink; Condition: Fair; Comments: Muslim prayer in Bamum language and Bamum script
Jangui report by Souleyman documenting theft of money along with a verse from Qur'an
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 8cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: The document notes that Mariama escaped with “155 money” and a hen
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 8cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil and native black ink; Condition: Fair; added to the original document are markings in red ink made at some point prior to the commencement of work by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project; Comments:
Medicine to protect against hernia along with sentences for recitation in Arabic
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 8cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: The document reports that the price of the medicine is one hen
Medicine for hernia including instructions for payment
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 9cm x 13cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil with some scratched out writing in roman script (transcribing English and Bamum); Condition: Fair; Comments:
Letter to Price Musa, in exile, from Malam Muhammed which announces the arrival of French colonials in the Bamum Kingdom; the document contains, independent of the letter, directions for a medicine for hunting
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16cm x 25cm; Dates: Unknown (?1919); Script: Arabic script in black ink and Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: Includes talismanic writing in Arabic script
Medicine to protect against hernia from Malam Abdou
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 8cm x 12cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: on one side is hernia medicine to drink, on the other is medicine administered via scarification