Fakeba Toure Manuscript Collection
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Item Images of Fakeba Toure, his family and the community of Bounkiling(2018-12-29) Ngom, IbrahimaImages of manuscript owner Fakeba Toure, his family, the EAP 1042 fieldwork team (Fallou Ngom and Ibrahima Yaffa), and the community of Bounkiling, Sedhiou, Senegal, for the manuscript digitization work done in December 2018.Item A poem by al-Yūsī with extensive Mandinka Ajami glossesibn Mas‘ūd al-Yūsī, Abū Alī al-Ḥasan; Toure, Mouhamadou Amine (scribe)The manuscript is a copy of an Arabic poem by the Moroccan Sufi poet, Abū Alī al-Ḥasan ibn Mas‘ūd al-Yūsī (1631-1691). It has extensive didactic glosses in Mandinka Ajami. It was copied from the original by Mouhamadou Amine Toure, the grandfather of the current owner who also added the Mandinka Ajami glosses.