#  Shamil Jeppie (Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) "Book Collecting in Timbuktu"  

 



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 **October 3, 2022** 

 05:15PM - 05:15PM EDT 

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 **In person event, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138**  



 

 



 

 Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book.

 Abstract: This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.



 

 



 

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