early 19th-century paper

Evidence

"They are written on early 19th-century paper,684 which, at this point, is the main available reference for the relative dating of the manuscripts and scholars they mention."

Remarks

The manuscripts belonging to the Mandinka scholarly network, including TCD MS 3499, MQB MS AF14722(87), and TCD MS 3500, are identified as being produced on early 19th-century paper. This material identification provides the primary chronological framework for the network in the absence of explicit colophons. The presence of Mandinka words in the glosses further confirms the regional provenance of these samples to The Gambia and southern Senegal (p. 136). The manuscripts primarily contain theological texts such as al-Sanusi's al-Kubra and al-Sughra (p. 136).