Occidental Sources Concerning Nubia

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These "Occidental Sources Concerning Nubia" are to accompany and support the compilation of Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia by Giovanni Vantini already available in this source book.

These sources are gathered from authors across Europe writing in languages including, but not exclusive to: Latin, Old French, Middle French, Catalan and Italian.

Comments and recommendations of sources to the administrators of the website are most welcome.

Translations are open to revision and debate.


Heliodorus (originally c. 4th century but reappeared throughout the Medieval period)

Procopius of Caesarea (c. 551)

Antonius Martyr (c. 570)

The Venerable Bede (c. 703)

Ansileub (c. 750)

Alfred the Great (c. late 9th century)

The Marvels of the East (c. 1000)

Chanson de Roland (c. 1090)

Matthew of Edessa (c. 1137)

Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1142)

Hermann the Second (1143)

Anna Comnena (c. 1148)

John of Würburg (c. 1170)

Richard of Poitiers (1172)

Pisan trade document (1173)

William of Tyre (c. 1170-84)

Chanson d'Antioche (c. 1180)

Chronicle of Ernoul (c. late 12th century)

Theodoric (c. late 12th century)

Arnold of Lübeck (c. 1209)

Gervais de Tilbury (c. 1209-18)

Robert de Clari (c. 1216)

Jacques de Vitry (c. 1220)

Roger of Wendover (c. 1235)

Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (c. 1241)

Burchard of Mount Sion (c. late 13th century)

Matthew Paris (c. 1250)

Roger Bacon (c. 1267)

Ristoro d'Arezzo (1282)

Hereford Mappaemundi (1283-1313)

Marco Polo (c. 1300)

Hayton of Corycus (1307)

Guillaume Adam (c. 1310-4)

Marino Sanudo Torsello (c. 1300-21)

Friar Jordanus (c. 1330)

Directorium ad Passagium Faciendum (1332)

Ebstorf Mappaemundi (c. 1234)

Jacques de Verone (1335)

Angelino Dulcert (1339)

Niccolo da Poggibonsi (c. 1345-50)

Anonymous Account of the Holy Land (c. 1350)

Mappaemundi of Portulano Mediceo Laurenziano (1351)

Vivaldi Brothers (before 1360)

Sir John Mandeville (d. 1371)

Catalan Atlas (1375)

Jean de Bethencourt (1402-6)

Portulan attributed to Jaffuda Cresques (c. 1416)

Orlando Innamorato (1482)

Friar Felix Fabri (c. 1483)

Orlando Furioso (1532)