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Manuscript, near Gao, 1854, Sūqī
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Mauro Nobili, . (n.d.). Manuscript, near Gao, 1854, Sūqī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4076
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Mauro Nobili. n.d. “Manuscript, near Gao, 1854, Sūqī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4076
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Mauro Nobili. Manuscript, Near Gao, 1854, Sūqī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4076
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- WestAfrica_MN_05
- Author
- Mauro Nobili
- Date
- July 6, 1854
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Mali, Gao region, near Gao
- Present Location
- British Archive
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Kitāb al-amān
- Type of text
- Legal/administrative texts
- Text Content
- Safeconduct from al-Quṭb, chief of the Tuareg confederation of the Iwellemeden, to the German Traveller Heirnich Barth (d. 1865)
- Script
- Sūqī
- Color of the Script
- black
- Signature
- Muḥammad Dāniyāl
- Remarks (General Identification)
- British Archive, Foreign Office, 101-45 ; Scribe of the giver of the safeconduct
- Type of Object
- manuscript\loose-leaf
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\unidentified
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 14 (plus 1 of basmala and 3 of concluding salutation)
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Bibliography
- Barth, Henry. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken under the Auspices of H. B. M.’s Government, in the Years 1849-1855. 5 vol. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857;
- Zebadia, Abdelkader. The Career and Correspondence of Ahmad Al-Bakkay of Timbuctu, from 1847 to 1866. University of London, 1974.