Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Arabic Documents Of Northern Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID2803967
AuthorsA D H Bivar (corresponding author)
Year1959
Volume22
Issue2
Pages324-349
Publication date1959-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00068737
OpenAlexW2005169773
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The present article is based on photographs of nineteenth-century Arabic official letters, made by the author while carrying out conservation work on manuscript material for the Nigerian Department of Antiquities at the Northern Nigerian centres of Sokoto and Bauchi. Thanks to conscientious local custody, and the moisture-free atmosphere which these districts enjoy for most of the year, the greater number of these papers were still in remarkably good condition. At the same; time, progressive embrittlement of the fibres was making direct handling of the sheets undesirable, and some protection was felt necessary, The custodians of these collections had therefore been in touch with the Department of Antiquities, and it was decided as a first step to mount the most delicate and valuable specimens between sheets of glass, to be sealed at the edges with passe-partout and enclosed in light wooden frames.2 Since photo-graphy was likely to be more difficult after the completion of this work, the documents selected for treatment were first recorded upon 35 mm. film

Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Atmosphere (unit) · Custodians · Geography · Meteorology · Visual arts · Work (physics) · African history and culture analysis · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Mechanical Engineering

  • The Arab star-calendar and planetary system in Hausa verse

    Open Access•Mervyn Hiskett•Bulletin of the School of…•1967

  • The Trans-Saharan Book Trade

    Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon•Trans-Saharan Book Trade•2011

  • The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

    Open Access•Aribidesi Usman, Aribidesi Adisa Usman et al.•Yoruba from Prehistory to the…•2019

  • Kitāb Al-Farq

    Open Access•Mervyn Hiskett•Bulletin of the School of…•1960

  • Les lettres du pouvoir au Sahel islamique

    Open Access•Rémi Dewière•Cahiers d études africaines•2019

  • Malay manuscripts

    Open Access•Farouk Yahya, Russell Jones•Indonesia and the Malay World•2021

Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,09
Citation span1960 - 2021 (62)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae