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Riccobaldi Ferrariensis (1312) Locis Orbis
et Insularum et Marium. (geography) from Italy
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Taken from: www.thelatinlibrary.com
spfm.unipv.it
He wrote his geography based on, as far as East Africa is concerned, two classical authors.
...Second is the gulf Indicus, as yet the biggest. Of the islands in it there are the ones named Azanium, the Gulf (Indicus) splits into the known Persicum and Arabicum.
(this he repeats three times in his book)
.....Now a description of the islands in the ocean. We start with the Indian Ocean there where it is called Azanium or Rubrum Sea.
The Indian Ocean of India Serican has in the Northern part 15 islands, difficult to find. Beyond there where the Indian rivers join the Indian Ocean is Azanium or Rubrum Sea and are the islands Chrise and Argire (not in east Africa) who produce lots of metals. The Ocean then continues to Sericum (China) or Eoum.
There are in those islands of Azanio or its Rubrum Sea many incredible things to see and to hear. Of these two gulfs of Azanium, Persicum and Arabicum, the smaller of the two is Arabia Eudemon ...(in the Periplus this place is described as the place where ships from the Red Sea meet the ones coming from India )
About Azanio Solinus (200-250 AD) declares: ......The sea Azanium goes all the way to the Ethiopian coastal lands, passing the Ethiopian and Mossilicum (harbor in N-Somalia according to the Periplus) mountain ridges, thence back to the Athlanticum Oceanum.(the surrounding Ocean)