This article briefly examines the production of Swahili-Islamic manuscripts with specific reference to Swahili ink making in coastal Kenya. The Swahili scribes used organic, carbonic and carbonic-iron inks to write their manuscripts for centuries. Currently, the knowledge on what sort of ink ingredients were used and how to make the inks themselves is in the domain of a dwindling number of elderly individuals. This paper tries to explain the types of ingredients mentioned by these individuals during interviews carried by the researcher in the period of 2015–2017 in East Africa.

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斯瓦希里语-伊斯兰手抄本的制作，特别涉及斯瓦希里语墨水的制作

本文简要地考察了斯瓦希里语-伊斯兰手抄本的制作过程，并特别提到了肯尼亚沿海斯瓦希里语墨水的制作。斯瓦希里语的抄写员使用有机，碳和铁碳墨水书写手稿已有数百年历史。当前，关于使用哪种墨水成分以及如何自行制作墨水的知识属于越来越多的老年人。本文试图解释在研究人员于2015-2017年间在东非进行的访谈中，这些人提到的成分类型。