Two talismanic manuscripts, Sub-Saharan Africa, probably Mali, Timbuktu, and Northern Nigeria, 19th/early 20th century

Arabic manuscripts on paper, the first with 74 loose leaves, approximately 7-9 lines to the page written in Barnawi script in brown ink, keywords and phrases picked out in purple, with numerous diagrams and tables, in stamped leather case; the second with 174 loose leaves, approximately 10-13 lines to the page written in Barnawi in dark brown ink, key words and phrases picked out in red, numerous diagrams and tables in green, red and dark brown, within tooled brown leather case with flap

leaf: 10 by 12cm; 11 by 14cm.