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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

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.

Amulet  

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

Konduga Qur’an  

Publication Date:  [18th Century]
Creator:  Borno scribes [unknown]
Scribes Borno [inconnue]
Borno Schriftgelehrten [unbekannt]
الكتبة بورنو [غير معروف]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  32 x 22 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
قرآن
Anchor watermark
Galvani, Andrea, 1797-1855. Watermark.
Anchor Wasserzeichen
Galvani, Andrea, von 1797 bis 1855. Wasserzeichen.
Filigrane d'une ancre
Galvani, Andrea, 1797-1855. Filigrane.
العلامة المائية من مرساة
جالفاني، أندريا، 1797-1855. العلامة المائية.
Shaykhʹzādah, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, -1667 or 1668. Ḥāshīyah
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

[Unidentified title]  

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

Unidentified item  

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

[Qur'an annotated in Old Kanembu] : Kano manuscript  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  9.5 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
Qurʼan -- Commentaries
القرآن الكريم - تفسير
Coran -- Commentaires
Koran -- Kommentare
Qurʼan -- Interpretation, etc. -- Nigeria
القرآن الكريم - تفسير، الخ - نيجيريا
Coran -- Interprétation, etc -- Nigéria
Koran -- Auslegung, usw. -- Nigeria
Qur'an. Old Kanembu.
Coran. Vieil kanembou.
Koran. Alt-Kanembu
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

A [treatise on fiqh]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  27.5 cm.
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

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

[Short creed based on Umm al-Barāhīn by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1437-1480) of Tlemcen]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف، حوالي 1427-حوالي 1490
السنوسي، محمد بن يوسف
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  12 x 16 cm.
Subjects:  Théologie islamique
Islamische Theologie
Dogma -- Islamic theology
اللاهوت الإسلامي -- توحيد ــ شرح‎
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

[Qawāʿid al-ṣalāt]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Alhaji Abba Ibn al-Māhir ʿamma (son of Goni Amma) from Lamisulā Yafatori who was the student of Sheikh Goni Kaltumi
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
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