A Berber legal document
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood.
Inscribed argan wood cylinder, ca. 190 mm in length, 50 mm in diameter. Brown Maghribi script, ink on wood.
€ 750.00
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 purchase by a man identified by the mosque he frequents. Dated to 1925 CE, during French colonial rule, the contract also references an earlier date (1328 H, or 1910 CE), likely in with reference to the purchase being made fifteen years later.
A few lines difficult to read, otherwise in good condition and legible.
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.
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