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• Abbott, Nabia. "Maghribi Koran Manuscripts of the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries." The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 55, no. 1 (Jan. 1938): pp. 61-65.
• Alsaleh, Yasmine F. "Licit Magic": The Touch And Sight Of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2014.
• Balicka-Witakowska, Ewa. "The Iconography of the Deposition in Ethiopian Painting," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 15-22. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Barbash, Yekaterina. The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem: Walters Art Museum 551. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2006.
• Baryla, Christiane and Marie-Geneviève Guesdon. "Des coopérations pour répondre à l'urgence: formation à la sauvegarde et au signalement des manuscrits de Tombouctou et du Nord Mali," in Mali, post crise: De nouvelles perspectives pour le patrimoine: Séminaire du 23 juin 2014, pp. 55-72. Collection Patrimoines africains. Paris: Riveneuve éditions, 2015.
• Bausi, Allessandro. "Some Short remarks on the Canon Tables in Ethiopic Manuscripts," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 edited by Birhanu Teferra and Richard Pankhurst, pp. 109-119. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003.
• Bivar, A. D. H. "The Arabic Calligraphy of West Africa." African Language Review 7 (1968): pp. 3-15.
• Bivar, A. D. H. "Arabic Documents of Northern Nigeria." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 22, no. 1-3 (1959): pp. 324-349.
• Bivar, A. D. H. "The Wathiqat Ahl Al-Sudan: A Manifesto of the Fulani Jihad." The Journal of African History 2, no. 2 (1961): pp. 235-243.
• Bivar, A. D. H. and M. Hiskett. "The Arabic Literature of Nigeria to 1804: A Provisional Account." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25, no. 1-3 (1962): pp. 104-148.
• Brigaglia, Andrea and Mauro Nobili, eds. The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 12. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. [Reviewed by Paul E. Lovejoy in Research Africa Reviews 2, no. 3 (December 2018): pp. 40-42.]
• Chabbouh, Ibrahim. Le Manuscrit. Chefs d'œuvre de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie 1. Tunis: Agence Nationale de Mise en Valeur et d'Exploitation du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique, 1989.
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw. "Ethiopian Warrior Saints in 18th-Century Miniatures and Their Significance in the Cultural History of Ethiopia," in The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999) edited by Manuel João Ramos and Isabel Boadvida, pp. 73-82. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw. "The Theme of the Bitter Water in Ethiopian Painting," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 53-67. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Conti Rossini, C. "Un codice illustrato eritreo del secolo XV." Africa Italiana 1 (1927): pp. ????.
• Cramer, M. Koptische Buchmalerei: Illuminationen in Manuskripten des christlichen-koptischen Ägypten vom 4. bis 19 Jahrhundert. Recklinghausen: A Bongers, 1964.
• Djian, Jean-Michel. Les manuscrits de Tombouctou: Secrets, mythes et réalités. Paris: J.-C. Lattès, 2012.
• Eman, Carla Zanotti. "the Harag of the Manuscripts of Gunda Gundi," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 68-72. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Fisseha, Girma. "Ethiopian Mesengers in Art and History," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 98-101. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Fleurier, David-Dominique. "La base de données Mandragore: un outil pour étudier le décor des manuscrits coptes," in Etudes coptes X Douzième journée d'études (Lyon, 19021 mai 2005) edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, pp. 259-262. Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 16. Paris: De Boccard, 2008.
• Grébaut, Sylvain. Catalogue des Manuscrits Éthiopiens de la Collection Griaule (Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Manuscrits). [Reviewed by Solange de Ganay, review available in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 10 (1940): p. 197.]
• Hamès, Constant. "Sura Headings and Subdivisions in Qur'an Manuscripts from Sub-Saharan Africa: Variations and Historical Implications." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 15, no. 3 (2013): pp. 232-252.
• Hassan, Salah M. Art and Islamic Literacy Among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria. African Studies 27. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
• Heldman, Marilyn E. "An Ewostathian Style and the Gunda Gunde Style in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Manuscript Illumination," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 5-14. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Henze, Paul B. "Lake Zway - Southern Christian Outpost and Repository of Medieval Ethiopian Art," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 30-40. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Hunwick, John O., Alida Jay Boye, and Joseph Hunwick. The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Historic City of Islamic Africa. London: Thames and Hudson, 2008.
• Jenkins, Earnestine. "Four Miniatures from 18th-19th Century Sawa: An African Perspective?" in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 102-108. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Jeppie, Shamil and Aslam Farouk-Alli. "Timbuktu's Manuscript Libraries: Repositories of African History," in From Papyrus to Print-Out: The Book in Africa edited by Cora Ovens, pp. 7-17. Bibliophilia Africana 8. Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, 2005.
• Juel-Jensen, Bent. "An Aksumite Survival in Late Mediaeval Ethiopian Miniatures," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 41-43. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Mellors, John and Anne Parsons. "Manuscript and Book Production in South Gondar in the Twenty First Century," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 edited by Birhanu Teferra and Richard Pankhurst, pp. 185-199. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003.
• Nersessian, V. N. "The Ethiopian Manuscript Collection in the British Library," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 63-68. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• O'Kane, Bernard. "The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts," in Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts edited by Anna Contadini, pp. 135-144. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
• Ohta, Alison. "Filigree Bindings of the Mamluk Period." Muqarnas 21 (2004): pp. 267-276.
• Pankhurst, Richard. "A Note on the Coming to Gondar of the Painting of the Virgin of Santa Maria Maggiore," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 93-94. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Pankhurst, Richard. "Secular Themes in Ethiopian Ecclesiastical Manuscripts: VI. A Catalogue of Illustrations of Historical and Ethnographic Interest in the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek and Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, in Munich." Journal of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa) 32, no. 2 (December 1999): pp. 1-14.
• Perczel, Csilla Fabo. "Ethiopian Illuminated Ornament," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 59-62. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Rosen-Ayalon, M. "Some Comments on a Maghribi Qur’an." Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 19 (1995): pp. 73-80.
• Seydou, C. "Note sur le «mot-date» (Procédé mnémotechnique et littéraire utilisé par les écrivains peul et haoussa)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 38, no. 1 (1968): pp. 15-18.
• Spencer, Diana M. "The Discovery of Brancaleon's Paintings," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 53-55. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Spencer, Diana M. "The Monastery of Aheya Fagg Qusqwam in Wallo: Its Illuminated Manuscripts and Other Treasures," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 73-82. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Tribe, Tania C. "Place, Space and Representation in 18th-Century Gonarine Painting," in The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999) edited by Manuel João Ramos and Isabel Boadvida, pp. 61-72. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
• Uhlig, Siegbert. "Funktion und Bedeutung der Ornament in äthiopischen Kodizes," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 56-58. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Vajda, Georges. "Contribution à la connaissance de la littérature arabe en Afrique Occidentale." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 20, no. 2 (1950): pp. 229-237.
• Werner, Louis. "Mauritania's Manuscripts." Saudi Aramco World 54, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 2003): pp. 2-16.