red inks; brown ink
Senegal
19th Century
Recipe Details
Preparation Steps
Except for recent manuscripts using modern commercial inks, the writing tools and inks in the Soninke Ajami corpus are described as being produced locally from 'readily available ingredients' (p. 68). In MS DNN2 specifically, a clear functional color-coding is observed where Arabic phrases are written in red ink while the alternating Soninke phrases are executed in brown ink (p. 71).
Original Recipe Text
Except for recent manuscripts using modern commercial inks, the writing tools and inks in the Soninke Ajami corpus are described as being produced locally from 'readily available ingredients' (p. 68). In MS DNN2 specifically, a clear functional color-coding is observed where Arabic phrases are written in red ink while the alternating Soninke phrases are executed in brown ink (p. 71).
Evidence
"The text of al-Sanūsī’s ʿAqīda ṣaghīra al-ṣughrā incorporating alternating phrases in Arabic (red inks) and Soninke (brown ink). Senegal, Dembancané, MS DNN2, di 0025."
Remarks
The use of multiple colors (red and brown) is specifically linked to a bilingual layout in theology texts (p. 71). The Soninke annotations appear as interlinear and marginal glosses or alternating phrases (p. 69, p. 71).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
visual observation
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
ColorBrown
RegionSenegal
Approx. Year1850
Source Information
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