Thrilled to add another Bamoun manuscript to my library - this manuscript leaf contains an illustrated version of the traditional tale "Le Lion et l'Homme" (The Lion and the Man), and was written in February 1932 in the extraordinary Shü-mom script invented by King Njoya. 1/
This leaf comes by descent from the family of Suzanne Truithard, a journalist and artist who worked in Foumban in the early 1930s. 2/
Here is the Shü-mon text translated into French by the team of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Royal Palace of Bamum Kings in Foumban (Cameroon). 3/
More on King Njoya and his Bamoun script here: 4/
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