The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Joannes Leo Africanus (1494 - 1554?)
Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_africanus Authority - early modernReferences in Documents:
7. A particular Narration of that famous Expedition of the Hegira, so shortly touched by Bibliotheca AbsconditaGayland; with many other
exploits delivered at large in Arabick, lost in the Ship of Books and
Rarities which the Escurial, and conceived to be gathered out of the
relations of