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Leaves from the Qur'an of the Grand Imam Yousouf (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Publisher:  Clan Ledger
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Clan Ledger (paper manufacturer)
عشيرة ليدجر (الصانع ورقة)
Clan Ledger (fabricant de papier)
Clan Ledger (Papierhersteller)
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Risala  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Crescent moons
أقمار الهلال
Halbmonde
Croissants de lune
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Kitab Al-Shifa Bi Ta'Rif Huquq Al-Mustafa = Healing by the Recognition of the Reality of the Chosen One (Jos MS 397)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  ʿIyāḍ Ibn-Mūsā 1083-1149
القاضي عياض، 476-544 هـ
عياض بن موسى، 1083-1149
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  6.6 x 9.25 cm.
Subjects:  Kitab Ash-shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa
Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
سيرة رسول الله
Sîra
Sira (Islam)
Prophetic biography
السيرة النبوية
as-Siratu 'n-Nabawiyya
Life of the Messenger of God
سيرة
Sîrah
Islamischen Historiographie
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Poem by Muḥammad Sāliḥ bn Marḥūmi  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Muḥammad Sāliḥ bn Marḥūmi
Adam ibn Ibrahim
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  28 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Manẓūmat al-Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Qurṭubiyyu] : Urjūzat al-wildān by Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar al-Qurṭubī al-Azdī (d. 1171)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Al-Ḥājj al-ʿālimu Waʿamī of Yerimari (Maiduguri)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  Dogma
tawḥid
belief
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Man In The Moon Watermark from the Grand Imam Yousouf manuscript collection (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Moon in art
القمر في الفن
Lune dans l'art
Mond in der Kunst
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mutane mu lura da lahira zamu tabbata  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

دلائل الخيرات  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (d 1465); mystic
الجزولي، محمد بن سليمان، 807-870 هـ
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, ?-1465
Material:  Watercolour and ink on paper
Subjects:  Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Arabic -- Early works to 1800.
الإسلام - الصلاة والولاءات - العربية - يعمل في وقت مبكر إلى 1800.
Africa -- Najeriya
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Donated by Sir H.E. Leslie Wilson, Governor of Bombay, through Sir Frederic Kenyon, 1927.

Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Imam Ibrahim Qur’an  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Borno scribes [unknown]
Scribes Borno [inconnue]
Borno Schriftgelehrten [unbekannt]
الكتبة بورنو [غير معروف]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  18 x 26 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
قرآن
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʿibādāt ʿalā madhhab al-imām Mālik by Abd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr al-Akhḍārī al-Bunṭyūsī al-Mālikī (d. 1585)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Abū Bakr ibn al-Māhir ʾAwanā
al-ʿĀlim Jibrīl al-Mangawīyyu (whose teacher was Al-Māhir Abāca Būkar
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  17 cm.
Subjects:  law
fiqh
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mukhtaṣar al-Akhḍārī fī ʾl-ʿibādāt ʿalā madhhab al-imām Mālik by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr al-Akhḍārī al-Bunṭyūsī al-Mālikī (d. 1585)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  19 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
Qurʼan -- Commentaries
القرآن الكريم - تفسير
Coran -- Commentaires
Koran -- Kommentare
Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Nigeria
القرآن الكريم - نقد، تفسير، الخ - نيجيريا
Coran -- Critique, interprétation, etc -- Nigéria
Koran -- Kritisch, Auslegung, usw. -- Nigeria
Qur'an. Kanembu.
Coran. Kanembou.
Koran. Kanembu
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Inheritance computations (calculation of shares)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  24.4 cm.
Subjects:  Inheritance
Inheritance computations
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
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