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Work by Leo Africanus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
In 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]
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