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The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

​​​​​​​Atlas Chinesis

Dutch minister and headmaster Arnold Montanus wrote Atlas Chinesis (1671) as a compendium of previously reported information about China. As Brewer notes (p. 248), he relied principally on members of the Dutch East India company, and his account of the geography of Prester John's kingdom resembles that of Johannes Nieuhof's Embassy from the East-India Company, published two years later. Montanus places Prester John's kingdom west of Sichuan, putting him in Tibet (here called Sifan). 

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