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One Text, Many Forms – A Comparative View of the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts
Proceedings of the workshop ‘One Text, Many Forms – A Comparative View of the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts’, held at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures on 21 and 22 April 2017
Edited by Ridder H. Samsom and Clarissa Vierke
Editorial2
by Ridder H. Samsom and Clarissa Vierke
Writing in Swahili on Stone and on Paper
13 by Ann Biersteker
Swahili Manuscripts from Nothern Mozambique: Some Notes on Ajami Correspondence Letters
29 by Chapane Mutiua
Arabic-Swahili Hamziyya Manuscripts: Oberservations on Two Testimonies of the Text
53by Ahmed Parkar
A Network of Copies: Transmisson and Textual Variants of Manuscript Traditions from the J.W.T. Allen Collection
65by Annachiara Raia
Writing Songs, Singing Texts: Orality and Literacy in Swahili Manuscripts
87by Clarissa Vierke
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