A Berber contract of purchase
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.
Condition
Soiling to one section of text, with some loss.
References
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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