About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib

Shamil Jeppie

Abstract

This article reflects on the simultaneity of manuscript and print cultures in Northwest Africa and the relationship between them, challenging the conventional idea of progress from one form of textual reproduction to another. In particular, the article examines the movement between print and manuscript worlds as reflected in a text, which was discovered in a Timbuktu collection, about the subject of tea. In addition to appealing to this particular text as an invitation to future work on the relationship between the two processes of storing the written word, the article illustrates the possibility of using the collections in Timbuktu to write about the history of consumable goods.

About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib

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