The cosmography and geography of Africa

Author(s)

• Leo, Africanus, ca.ca. 1550
• Ossa-Richardson, Anthony
• Oosterhoff, Richard J.

Bibliographic Information

The cosmography and geography of Africa

Johannes Leo Africanus (Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad Al-Wazzan) ; translated and edited by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard J. Oosterhoff

（Penguin classics）

Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2023

• : pbk

Other Title

La cosmographia & geographia de Affrica

Note

"The 957-page manuscript, now Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, MS V.E. 953, is entitled La cosmogrophia [sic] & geographia de Affrica: this is the text we have translated, and consequently the title we have used."--P. xxv

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xl) and index

Chronology: p. [xxxv]-xxxvi

Details

• NCID: BD02176772
• ISBN:
  • 9780241543931
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: [London]
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 511 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 916.04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646