Manuscript culture of West Africa. Part 2: A survey of the scholarly production dedicated to local manuscript collections

This publication is the second instalment of the article devoted to the West African manuscript heritage. The first part, published in the previous issue of the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter (2, July 2011, pp. 21-24), was focusing on the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention to this field of research. On the following pages, I review handlists, inventories and catalogues of West African manuscript collections that have been authored by both Western and African scholars since the colonial period.