Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica ("Cosmography and geography of Africa") is a work completed by Leo Africanus March 10, 1526.
[1] The text from this work was taken by Giovambattista Ramusio and published in the Descrittione dell’Africa in Venice in 1550.
[1] The original 928 page manuscript exists in its entirety and is held at the National Central Library of Rome, MS V.E.
[2] Gabriele Amadori published a first critical edition of this text in 2014.
[3] In the text, Leo Africanus divided Africa into four parts: Barbary, Numidia, Libya, and the Black Lands, areas covering Mediterranean Africa from Morocco to Egypt and spanning to the territories immediately South of the Sahara, from the Atlantic Ocean to Ethiopia.