• Nasir al-Din Abual-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Hajj al-Amin al-Tawathi al-Ghalawi. Kashf al-Ghummah fi Nafa al-Ummah. (The Important Stars Among the Multitude of the Heavens), copied 1733. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (1)
• Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kuntial-Kabir. Qasidah (Poem). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (2)
• al-Qadi Muhammad ibn al-Imam Uthman al-Wakari al-Tumbukti, Sharh 'ala Amthilat al-Fara'id. (Commentary on the work Examples of Law). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (3)
• Ahmad ibn Bud ibn Muhammad al-Fullani. Sullam al-Atfal fi Buyu al-Ajal. (The Protection of Individuals in Commercial Transactions). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (4)
• Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti al-Kabir. al-Minnah fi Itiqad Ahl al-Sunnah. (The Gift of the Followers of the Path of Muhammad), copied 1809. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (5)
• Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit al-Tumbukti. Miraj al-Suud ila nayl Majlub al-Sudan. (Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's Questions about Slavery). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (6)
• al-Hajj Umar ibn Said al-Futi. Rimah Hizb al-Rahim 'ala Nuhuri Hizb al-Rajim. (The Spear of the Merciful against the Throat of the Reviled), copied 1858. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (7)
• Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti al-Kabir. Jizwat al-Anwar fi al-Dhabb an Manasib Awliya' Allah al-Akhyar. (The Flowers of Light in Defense of the Status of God's Chosen Saints), copied 1858. Loaned by the Cheik Zani Baye Library, Boujbeha, Mali (8)
• Sayf al-Din Ali ibn al-Amdi. al-Mubin fi Mukhtasar Maani al-Alfaz al-Mutadawilah bayna al-Hukama' wa-al-Mutakallimin. (A Summary Explanation of the Pronouncements of the Scholars and Theologians) Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (9)
• Ahkam al-Shira al-Yamaniyah wa-ma Yazharu min Hawadith fi al-Alam inda Zuhuriha fi Kull Sanah. (Knowledge of the Movement of the Stars and What it Portends in Every Year). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali(10)
• Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rasmuki. Kashf al-Hijab li-Asfiya' al-Ahbab an Ajnihatal-Righab fi Marifat al-Hisab. (Explanations of the Problems in Arithmetic with Examples). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (11)
• Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Misri. Bughyat al-Talibin li-ma Tadammanatihu Umm al-Barahin. (The Goal of Seekers, a Commentary on the Work The Mother of Proofs). Loaned by the Cheik Zani Baye Library, Boujbeha, Mali (12)
• Arbab al-Khartumi. al-Jawahir al-Hisan fi Marifat Arkan al-Iman. (The Jewel of Beauty for Education in the Pillars of the Faith). Loaned by the Cheik Zani Baye Library, Boujbeha, Mali (13)
• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Maghili. As'ilat Askiyah wa-Ajwibat al-Maghili. (Maghili's Tract on Politics). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (14)
• 'Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn 'Uthman ibn Fodyo. Usul al-'Adl li-Wullat al-Umur wa-Ahl al-Fadl wa-al-Salatin. (The Administration of Justice for Governors, Princes and the Meritorious Rulers). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (15)
• Sayyid Ahmad ibn Amar al-Raqadi al-Tumbukti al-Kunti. Shifa' al-Asqam al-Aridah fi al-Zahir wa-al-Batin min al-Ajsam. (Curing Diseases and Defects both Apparent and Hidden). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (16)
• Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Ahwazi. al-Fawa'id wa-al-Qala'id. (Useful Stories and Verses). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (17)
• Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti al-Kabir. Risalah ila al-Qaba'il al-Mutaqatilin. (Letter to the Warring Tribes). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (18)
• Ahmad al-Bakayi ibn Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid al-Mukhtar al-Kunti. Jawab Ahmad al-Bakayi ala Risalat Amir al-Mu'minin Ahmad al-Masini. (The Response of Ahmad al-Bakayi to the Letter of Amir Ahmad, Ruler of Massinah), eighteenth century. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (19)
• Anonymous, Kitab al-Barakah fi Fadl al-Hiraf wa-al-Zar. (The Book Describing the Blessed Merits of Crafts and Agriculture). Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (20)
• Commercial agreement. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (21)
• Commercial agreement. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (22)
• Certificate of emancipation for female slave. Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (23)
• Abraham Ortelius. "Africae Tabula Nova" (New Map of Africa), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. (Theatre of the World). Antwerp: G. von Diest, 1572. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (24)
• Guinea propia, nec non Nigritiae vel Terrae Nigororum maxima pars: geographis hodiemis dicta utraque Aethiopia inferior, & hujus quidem pars australis. (Guinea Proper, Not Including the Whole of Africa, but Only that Part Known to the Geographers as Lower Ethiopia). Nuremberg: Homannianorum Heredum, 1743. [Enlarged] Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (25)
• Mali. Washington D.C.: United States Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. [Enlarged] Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (26)
• Allen Carpenter, Thomas O'Toole, and Mark LaPointe, Enchantment of Africa: Mali. Chicago: Children's Press, 1975. General Collections, Library of Congress (27)
• Africa's Glorious Legacy. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1994. African Section Reference Collection, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (28)

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