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Timbuktu Manuscripts (or Tombouctou Manuscripts) is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali. The collections include manuscripts about art, medicine, philosophy, and science, as well as copies of the ...
10 de mar. de 2022 · The manuscripts were smuggled to safety from Timbuktu after Islamist militant groups took control of the city in northern Mali in 2012. They contain centuries of African knowledge and...
An exceptional testimony of the history of West Africa. The Timbuktu manuscripts refers to a collection of between 400,000 and half a million manuscripts produced in West Africa, held by...
Explore 40,000 manuscripts guarded by Dr. Abdel Kader Haidara and SAVAMA-DCI, showcasing Africa’s greatest written legacy.
The Timbuktu Manuscripts. March 2022 | By Artists in Residence at Google Arts & Culture Lab: Simon Doury, Nicolas Barradeau, Bastien Girschig. Explore 40,000 manuscripts guarded by Dr. Abdel Kader Haidara and SAVAMA-DCI, showcasing Africa’s greatest written legacy. Launch experiment.
The Timbuktu manuscripts represent an invaluable body of knowledge from the Islamic world, in which the city of Timbuktu was a in important scholarly hub. From medicine and astronomy to human...
The exhibited manuscripts date from the sixteenth to eighteenth century. The manuscripts on view are from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, two of the most noteworthy institutions in the Timbuktu area.
