We have collected digital samples of diverse handwriting styles and marvelled at these unique calligraphies. Our project has been very much concerned with the diverse content of the manuscripts, the circulation of scholars and ideas, the economy of the manuscript book, and other aspects of the ‘work of scholarship’ in Timbuktu. Local scholars and their students recorded their scholarship – original works and copies – in manuscripts, i.e. This city was a great centre of learning and was famous in West Africa and far beyond over a period of more than three hundred years, from the 15th to the 19th centuries. ![]() Since 2002, when the idea of the formation of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project first emerged, we have been involved with various aspects of the study of the rich manuscript tradition in the historic city of Timbuktu, Mali.
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