Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica ("Cosmography and geography of Africa") is a work completed by Leo Africanus March 10, 1526.[1] The text from this work was taken by Giovambattista Ramusio and published in the Descrittione dell’Africa in Venice in 1550.[1]
The original 928 page manuscript exists in its entirety and is held at the National Central Library of Rome, MS V.E. 953.[2] Gabriele Amadori published a first critical edition of this text in 2014.[3]
Content
editIn the text, Leo Africanus divided Africa into four parts: Barbary, Numidia, Libya, and the Black Lands, areas covering Mediterranean Africa from Morocco to Egypt and spanning to the territories immediately South of the Sahara, from the Atlantic Ocean to Ethiopia.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Cresti, Federico (2014-08-01). "Il Manoscritto Della Cosmographia de L'Affrica di Giovanni Leone Africano – Note in Margine All'Edizione Critica del Testo" [The Manuscript of the Cosmograhia de L'Affrica by Johannes Leo Africanus – Some Notes About the Critical Edition of the Text] (PDF). Mediterranea (in Italian). 31. Abstract in English: 383–396. ISSN 1824-3010.
- ^ a b "Leo Africanus". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_35836. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Africano, Leone Giovanni (2014). Cosmographia de l'Affrica : (Ms. V.E. 953 - Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma - 1526). Aracne. ISBN 978-88-548-7114-4. OCLC 897999270.
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