Lucumi 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 World