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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. EAP1245/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/13
Title:
ا مهد يا لي من الخضراء غانية
Scope & Content:
The author saw beauty in the writings of Tunisian savant Daha Hussein and he decided to write a poem that would resemble Hussein's poetry. The manuscript contains 8 ghazal poems. The poem opens with a praise to a woman and ends with a description of the country of Tunisia. L'auteur a vu la beau...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
8 TIFF images

3. EAP1245/1/9

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