Archive Title:
The West African Arabic Manuscript Database – University of California Berkeley
Link to Archive or Database:
https://waamd.lib.berkeley.edu/about/index
About:
WAAMD is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). It subsequently has been used to compile a union catalogue of other West African collections, including manuscript libraries in West Africa, Europe and the United States. Beginning in 2018 inventories from the SAVAMA-DCI project in Timbuktu are being added. This is a work in progress that will be expanding as additional library data from West Africa is being made available. WAAMD is hosted by the Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
– taken from the WAAMD website
Time Period:
1800-Present
Content Type(s):
Manuscripts
