Angelino Dulcert

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Angelino Dulcert

(1339)

Italian-Majorcan cartographer.

Latin.


Nubia saracenorum.

Iste Rex saracenus habet continue gueram cum christianos nubie et ethiopie qui sunt sub domini prest Iane christianus niger.


(Nubia of the Sarracens.

The king of the Sarracens is at continual war with the Christians of Nubia and Ethiopia, who live under the reign of Prester John, who is a black Christian.)


Selected editions

Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti. Tome IV.II, ed. Y. Kamel (Leiden: 1937).