Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood.
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood. – Bild 2
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood. – Bild 3
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood. – Bild 4
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood. – Bild 5

A Berber contract of purchase

[Berber contract]. Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood.

Morocco, Atlas Mountains, [19th century].

Inscribed argan wood cylinder, ca. 180 mm in length, 40 mm in diameter. Brown Maghribi script, ink on wood.

€ 850,00

A legal document written in Arabic by a member of the Berber tribes of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, on a debarked and smoothed piece of a branch of Argania spinosa, a tree endemic to southwest Morocco. Similar pieces are held in the collections of various universities and museums.

This manuscript is a contract of a purchase between individuals in the Berber community.

Zustand

Soiling to one section of text, with some loss.

Literatur

Cf. H. Elbahraoui / I. Kliakhandler, "Discovery of a vast corpus of Berber arraten documents", Journal of North African Studies 29.6 (2024), pp. 1052-1073.

Art.-Nr.: BN#67438 Schlagwörter: , , ,

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