A man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti

Timbuktu
19th Century
Source: Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, "A man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti", in The Meanings of Timbuktu, edited by Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, HSRC Press, 2008, pp. 231-244.
Recipe Details

Evidence

"It is handwritten in an elegant, narrow Maghribi script and has 30 lines per page"

Remarks

The ink is utilized in an 'elegant, narrow Maghribi script' for a document addressed to the leaders of the Sokoto Caliphate (p. 239). Although the chemical composition is not analyzed, the ink's application is characterized by high precision, allowing for 30 lines of text within a small 16 cm x 11 cm format (p. 239). The manuscript serves as a 'mirror for princes' (nasiha) and likely dates between 1811 and 1817 (p. 239). The text also mentions a separate manuscript, 'Khitaf al-ghawwas', of which only the first page remains in the possession of Bubakr Ould Hammad, reportedly written in Spanish (p. 227).

Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
RegionTimbuktu
Approx. Year1850
Source Information
TitleA man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti
AuthorAbdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, "A man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti", in The Meanings of Timbuktu, edited by Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, HSRC Press, 2008, pp. 231-244.
CollectionAzawad
Language
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