Ioannis Leonis Africani De totius Africæ descriptione, libri IX. : Quibus non solum Africæ regionum, insularum, & oppidorum situs, locorumque; interualla accuratè complexus est, sed regum familias, bellorum causas & euentus, resq[ue]; in ea memorabiles, tam à seipso diligenti obseruatione indagatas, quàm in veris Maurorum Annalibum memoriæ traditas, copiose descripsit, / recens in Latinam linguam conuersi Ioan. Floriano interprete. ; Arabicè primùm scripsit author: deinde Italico sermone reddidit, Ioannes Florianvs ex Italico Latinum fecit. His recens accedit Hannonis Carthaginensium ducis nauigatio, qua Libycam oram vltra Herculis columnas lustrauit, Conrado Gesnero interprete, cum scholijs.
Leo Africanus (c.1492-c.1550)
Category
Books
Date
1559
Materials
Place of origin
Zurich
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3228907
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 517, [5], 21, [1] p. ; 8vo. Occasional manuscript annotations (partially trimmed away in binding). Provenance: pencil code (price?) on front pastedown. Binding: seventeenth-century? full sprinkled calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt fillets on spine; red spine label: 'Leonis Africae descript:'; blind edge rolled; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Leo Africanus (c.1492-c.1550) Florianus, Joannes