Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Officina Elzeviriana, publisher

Description

1. 2 parts in 1 volume; 12 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. Iohannis Leonis Africani De Africae descriptione, pars altera
2. Io. Leonis Africani descriptionum Africae
3. Descriptio Africae

Subject

1. Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Sc Rare 916-L (Leo Africanus. Africae)

Note

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

Indexed in (note)

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

Provenance (note)

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

Publications (note)

1. 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.

Author

1. Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Title

1. Ioannis Leonis Africani Africae descriptio IX. lib. absoluta.

Imprint

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

Indexed in:

1. Willems, A. Elzevier, 371
2. Rahir, Edouard. Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elsevier et divers typographes Hollandais du XVIIe siècle, 355

Provenance

1. 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

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

Publications

1. 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

1. Officina Elzeviriana, publisher.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added title page title

1. Iohannis Leonis Africani De Africae descriptione, pars altera

Caption title

1. Io. Leonis Africani descriptionum Africae

Running title

1. Descriptio Africae

LCCN

1. 02011986

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 916-L (Leo Africanus. Africae)
2. *KB 1632 (Leone, G. A. Ioannis Leonis Africani)