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Copy, read slowly and then read aloud to oneself – these are the methods Prof. Dr. Jeppie uses to understand the Timbuktu manuscripts and place them in their cultural-historical context. As with the letter by an unknown collector of the manuscripts from 1945, with which Prof. Dr. Shamil Jeppie particularly likes to concern himself. Who was the passionate manuscript collector and to which texts does the letter refer? Intensive textual analysis opens up a further indigenous access point to Africa’s history