unlined notebook

Ingredients

blue carton, paper

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The support is described as an unlined notebook measuring 16 x 20 cm (p. 1027). It is bound in a soft, blue carton cover (p. 1027). The reverse cover contains printed 'Colonial Weights and Measures' and multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 (p. 1027). The front cover bears the specific imprint of the 'Zanzibar Protectorate Education Department' (p. 1027).

Evidence

"In terms of materiality, the support is an unlined notebook measuring 16 x 20 cm, bound in soft, blue carton. The front of the notebook bears the imprint of the Zanzibar Protectorate Education Department."

Remarks

The notebook is identified as Maalim MS 34 and was used in the late 1920s or early 1930s (p. 1028). The author notes that such colonial notebooks were common supports for writing Islamic texts in early 20th-century East Africa, with similar items found in the Riyadha Collection in Lamu from the Kenya Colony Education Department (p. 1028). The author hypothesizes that this specific material context (colonial paper) might indicate the text was produced as 'ethnographica' or a commissioned sample for colonial authorities (p. 1041).