Valentim Fernandes (died 1518 or 1519) was a printer who lived in Portugal. An ethnic German originally from Moravia, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 1495 where he lived and worked for 23 years, he was a writer and a translator of various classical texts.[1] He printed on the orders of Leonor of Viseu and worked on the book Vita Christi.[1]
His 1506-1507 Descripcam described how camel caravans carried Saharan salt from Oualata to Timbuktu, and then onto Djenne. There the salt was exchanged with the Soninke Wangara for gold.[2]
He died in Lisbon in 1518 or 1519.
He worked with different intellectuals and artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Münzer and Mathias Ringmann (better known as Philesius Vogesigena who was a translator).
See also
edit- Valentim Fernandes manuscript (Descripcam)
References
edit- ^ a b "Personalidades". Museu Virtual da Imprensa (in Portuguese). Instituto Multimédia. Retrieved 2007-03-25. (Shorter English version).
- ^ Wilks,Ivor. Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1997). Bakewell, Peter (ed.). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Aldershot: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 9–13.
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