2025
Borno and Old Kanembu Manuscripts
Project title: Borno and Old Kanembu Manuscripts
Link to the project: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/okim/about/
The Borno and Old Kanembu project is a digital collection that provides access to one of the earliest written sub-Saharan languages in manuscript form. These manuscripts are written in Arabic script, and the corpus originated from Qur’anic manuscripts that were photographed by David Bivar in the 1950s. This collection was donated to the SOAS Library in 2003. The digital collection covers around 400 years, starting from the oldest manuscripts found by Bivar (17th to 18th centuries) up to later manuscripts produced in the late 20th century.
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