Home›Open Questions›How much of the Diloggun corpus exists only in unpublished libretas, and what is the provenance of the notebooks that survive?Open QuestionsHow much of the Diloggun corpus exists only in unpublished libretas, and what is the provenance of the notebooks that survive?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "How much of the Diloggun corpus exists only in unpublished libretas, and what is the provenance of the notebooks that survive?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/how-much-of-the-diloggun-corpus-exists-only-in-unpublished-libretas-and-what-is-the-provenance-of-the-notebooks-that-survive.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). How much of the Diloggun corpus exists only in unpublished libretas, and what is the provenance of the notebooks that survive?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/how-much-of-the-diloggun-corpus-exists-only-in-unpublished-libretas-and-what-is-the-provenance-of-the-notebooks-that-surviveCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-how-much-of-the-diloggun-corpus-exists-o, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {How much of the Diloggun corpus exists only in unpublished libretas, and what is the provenance of the notebooks that survive?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/how-much-of-the-diloggun-corpus-exists-only-in-unpublished-libretas-and-what-is-the-provenance-of-the-notebooks-that-survive}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionLucumi houses transmit liturgy and divinatory material in handwritten notebooks copied between godparent and godchild. They were never intended for publication, they vary by lineage, and no census of them exists. The published record is therefore of unknown completeness against a body of text nobody has counted.What would resolve this A provenanced survey of surviving libretas in institutional and family holdings, undertaken with the consent of the houses concerned, establishing dates, lines of copying and the extent of overlap between them.OpenAfro-Cuban religious studies; manuscript studies; archival ethnographyWilliam Bascom, Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New WorldCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnDiloggun, Disciplines Well-attested How much of the Diloggun corpus exists only in unpublished libretas, and what is the provenance of the notebooks that survive? The question concerns the completeness of the Diloggun libreta corpus.SourcesSixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New Worldtier 1William Bascom, Indiana University Press, 1980Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year