A cancelled purchase in 19th century Berber Morocco
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood.
Inscribed argan wood cylinder, ca. 215 mm in length, 30 mm in diameter. Brown Maghribi script, ink on wood.
€ 800.00
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 revocation of a purchase, written in Ramadan of 1310 Hijri (1893 CE).
Faded French colonial administration stamp "Service des affaires indigènes - Contrôle des actes". 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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