Change and retention in annotated manuscripts of West Africa

手稿文化的不同领域以不同的速度发生着变化。有些手稿做法随着时间的推移而持续，而另一些则会改变或消失。因此，带有伊本·马赫卜诗歌注释的索宁克手稿在19至21世纪的布局和注释上没有任何重大变化，而带有旧卡内布注释的古兰经手稿在19世纪就不复存在了。该项目将研究Soninke和Old Kanembu手稿文化转变背后的因素，特别是在19世纪末和20世纪。该项目将探讨这些文化的哪些领域更稳定以及为什么。由于Soninke和旧Kanembu书面传统的基本上不相关的性质，拟议的项目的结果将有一般的手稿文化的动态研究的类型学的重要性。

Different domains of manuscript culture transform at different pace. Some manuscript practices sustain through time, while others change or disappear. Thus, the Soninke manuscripts with commentaries on Ibn Mahīb’s poem do not show any significant change in layout and annotations over the 19th to 21st centuries, whereas the Qur’an manuscripts with annotations in Old Kanembu ceased to exist in the 19th century. The project will study the factors behind the transformation of the Soninke and Old Kanembu manuscript cultures, especially in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The project will explore which domains of these cultures are more stable and why. Given the largely unrelated nature of the Soninke and Old Kanembu written traditions, the results of the proposed project will have a typological importance for the study of dynamics of manuscript cultures in general.