Leo's works:

Cosmographia Del Africa:
Leo's most important work is the Cosmographia Del Africa, a text first published in Italy in 1550. This initial publication was the work of Ramusio, a Venetian editor who did not know Leo, and admitted to 'modifying' Leo's text. For centuries, scholars worked on this 'modified' version, or its translations (some good, some particularly bad).
In 1931, Ms. Angela Codazzi 'discovered' Leo's original manuscript in the Library of the Vatican, unveiling great differences between Ramusio's text and Leo's original words. Unfortunately since this discovery, no scholar has edited and published the manuscript- though several have worked on excerpts. Amongst the most impressive is D. Rauchenberger's German translation of the pages relating to Leo's travels in the Sudan (in, Johannes Leo der Afrikaner, Seine Beschreibung des Raumes zwischen Nil und Niger nach dem Urtext, 1999, Harrassowitz Publishing House). Professor O. Zhiri (UC Davis) and Professor N. Zemon-Davis (Princeton) have also done extensive work on the manuscript. As of 2003 there was talk of finding funding for editing the manuscript...

Editions (by Language):

Other known works by Leo Africanus:
Few of Leo's other writings are still available today. Actually, no one knows whether or not Leo produced many other written works, or if the political turmoil of the 1520s made him unable to write (some scholars speculate that his numerous allusions to scholarship- that he supposedly read or wrote- are slight exxagerations on his part!). In the Cosmographia, he alludes to several books he claims to have written, or planned to write. We shall not list these 'hypothetical' works here, as a good list of them may be found in Jean Leon L'Africain a la Renaissance (O.Zhiri, Droz, 1991, p15-24). However, here is al list of known works: