printed material (manuscript in print)
Senegal
20th Century
Source: Dell, Jeremy. 'Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya'.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
papier-mâché, metal-plate
Preparation Steps
The printing process used to simulate handwriting involved casting a metal plate or 'cliché' from a papier-mâché mold (p. 280). This mold captured the calligraphy of the original manuscript. This technique allowed for the production of multiple copies while retaining the visual appearance of a handwritten book, which was preferred by the local audience in Senegal (p. 280).
Original Recipe Text
The printing process used to simulate handwriting involved casting a metal plate or 'cliché' from a papier-mâché mold (p. 280). This mold captured the calligraphy of the original manuscript. This technique allowed for the production of multiple copies while retaining the visual appearance of a handwritten book, which was preferred by the local audience in Senegal (p. 280).
Evidence
"M’hamdi responded to Niang’s letter, explaining the process by which a metal-plate (or ‘cliché’) could be cast from a papier-mâché in order to ‘print your book in your own handwriting’."
Remarks
This hybrid form of production is described as 'manuscript in print' (p. 280). It allowed Senegalese book sellers like Issa Niang to import books from Tunisia that looked like traditional manuscripts but were mass-produced. Other printers like Abdoulaye Diop later used electric-powered presses in Dakar to print thousands of copies of the Qur'an and xasida (p. 281-283).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
historical correspondence analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
paper
Paper Typeprinted material (manuscript in print)
RegionSenegal
Approx. Year1950
Source Information
AuthorDell, Jeremy. 'Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya'.
CollectionTunis
Language
N/A
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