Research Catalog

Title

Ioannis Leonis Africani Africae descriptio IX. lib. absoluta.

Author

Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Publication

Lugd. Batav. : Apud Elzevir, ao. 1632.

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Details

Additional Authors

Officina Elzeviriana, publisher.

Description

2 parts in 1 volume; 12 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Iohannis Leonis Africani De Africae descriptione, pars altera
• Io. Leonis Africani descriptionum Africae
• Descriptio Africae

Subject

• Africa > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Note

• Paged continuously, including separate title pages for each part: 800, [16] p.
• Part 1 has engraved title page.
• Part 2 has title: Iohannis Leonis Africani De Africae descriptione, pars altera. Lvgdvni Batavorvm, ex officinâ Elzeviriana, MDCXXXII.
• With head- and tailpieces; initials; and printer's mark on title page of part 2.
• Includes index.
• Signatures: A-3E⁸.

Indexed In (note)

• Willems, A. Elzevier
• Rahir, Edouard. Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elsevier et divers typographes Hollandais du XVIIe siècle

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Publications (note)

• For discussion of this Latin translation by Joannes Florianus, cf. Leo Africanus. The history and description of Africa ... London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1896.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916-L (Leo Africanus. Africae)

LCCN

02011986

OCLC

• 123155564
• 23644509
• NYPGR23644509-B

Author

Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Title

Ioannis Leonis Africani Africae descriptio IX. lib. absoluta.

Imprint

Lugd. Batav. : Apud Elzevir, ao. 1632.

Indexed In:

Willems, A. Elzevier, 371

Rahir, Edouard. Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elsevier et divers typographes Hollandais du XVIIe siècle, 355

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916-L (accession no. B594200) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-6448. NN

Publications

For discussion of this Latin translation by Joannes Florianus, cf. Leo Africanus. The history and description of Africa ... London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1896.

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Added Author

Officina Elzeviriana, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added Title Page Title

Iohannis Leonis Africani De Africae descriptione, pars altera

Caption Title

Io. Leonis Africani descriptionum Africae

Running Title

Descriptio Africae

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916-L (Leo Africanus. Africae)

*KB 1632 (Leone, G. A. Ioannis Leonis Africani)