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The collection also comprises more recent texts – 20,000 documents and treaties concerning the city and its environs, and thus the history of the entire region.
Thanks to the commitment of the
Jutta Vogel Stiftung, there is now for the first time support for the protection and preservation of these treasures. The most urgent aim is to protect the entire collection from sand, dust, rain and
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termites, and to store books, manuscripts and documents in appropriate conditions. Only then can the library be made accessible to visitors in order to spread this source of knowledge throughout Mauritania and beyond.
In this sense, the support of the
“Ehel Taleb Mohamed” private library is an important pilot project, as there are more cultural treasures in Tidjikdja waiting to be discovered.
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