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Leo Africanus

Born: ca. 1492

Died: ca. 1550.

Andilusian diplomat and author

Born: ca. 1492

Died: ca. 1550.

Books by Leo Africanus (50 max)

A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought vp in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings ... gathered partly out of his owne diligent obseruations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles vndescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Goneuill and Caius College in Cambridge

1994

Leo Africanus, Robert Brown, Leo

Ioannis Leonis Africani, De totius Africae descriptione, libri. IX Quibus non solúm Africæ regionum, insularum, [et] oppidorum situs, locorumq[ue] interualla accuratè complexus est, sed regum familias, bellorum causas [et] euentus ... tam à seipso diligenti obseruatione indagatas, q[uam] in veris Maurorum Annalib. memoriae traditas, copiose descripsit

1556

Ioannis Leonis Africani de totivs Africae descriptione libri IX ...: Arabicè primùm scripsit author: deinde italico sermone reddidit: Ioannes Florianvs ex italico latinum fecit

1559

Leo Africanus, Hanno

Ioannis Leonis Africani Africæ descriptio IX. lib. absoluta

1632

Leo Africanus, Olivart, Ramón de Dalmau y de Olivart marqués de, Alba, Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart y Portocarrero duque de, Officina Elzeviriana

Travels into the inland parts of Africa containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia; their trade, habits, customs, language, manners, religion and government; the power, disposition and characters of some negro princes; with a particular account of Job Ben Solomon. To which is added, Capt. Stibbs's voyage up the Gambia in the year 1723, to make discoveries; with an accurate map of that river taken on the spot and many other copper plates. Also extracts from the Nubian's Geography, Leo the African and other authors antient and modern, concerning the Niger-Nile, or Gambia. And observations thereon

1738

Francis Moore, Bartholomew Stibbs, Leo Africanus

Descrizione dell' Africa, etc

1837

Description de l'Afrique tierce partie du monde

1896

Description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde

1896

De la descripción de Africa y de las cosas notables que en ella se encuentran

1952

Waṣf Ifrīqiyā

1980

Fez dans la cosmographie d'Al-Hassan ben Mohammed al-Wazzan az-Zayyati, dit Léon l'Africain

2004

Leo Africanus, Ileana Marchesani, Hamid Triki, Amina Aouchar, Franco D'Alessandro

Geographical Historie of Africa, Written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, Borne in Granada, and Brought Vp in Barbarie. Wherein He Hath at Large Described, Not Onely the Qualities, Situations, and True Distances of the Regions, Cities, ...

2021