Map 4.2 : Textual Imaginings
Tractatus Pulcherrimus (c. 1450-1500)*
The Tale of the Indian Kingdom (1473-78)
Printed Letter of Prester John (1478)
On the Rites and ways of the Indians (1480-1481)
Pope Sixtus IV's Letter to Prester John (1482)
Il Trattato di Terra Santa e dell’Oriente (1482-1485)
Supplementum chronicarum (1485)
Report to the Court of King João II (1485-1486)
Prester John Chapbook (1490)
Christopher Columbus' Notes (b. 1492)*
Letters from Pêro da Covilhã (1493)
Nuremberg Chronicle [Liber Chronicarum] (1493)
The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1500)
Girolamo Sernigi's Letter (late 15th/ early 16th c.)*
Treatise on the Pontificate of Prester John (1499)
The Great Magnificence of Prester John, Lord of Greater India and of Ethiopia (1499)
Letter from Johannes Africanus (1500)
Queen Eleni's Letter of Prester John (1509)
Letters of Afonso de Albuquerque (1515)
El Libro del Infante Dom Pedro (1515)
Orlando Furioso (1516)
Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus (1520)
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The Tale of the Indian Kingdom (1473-78)
Printed Letter of Prester John (1478)
On the Rites and ways of the Indians (1480-1481)
Pope Sixtus IV's Letter to Prester John (1482)
Il Trattato di Terra Santa e dell’Oriente (1482-1485)
Supplementum chronicarum (1485)
Report to the Court of King João II (1485-1486)
Prester John Chapbook (1490)
Christopher Columbus' Notes (b. 1492)*
Letters from Pêro da Covilhã (1493)
Nuremberg Chronicle [Liber Chronicarum] (1493)
The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1500)
Girolamo Sernigi's Letter (late 15th/ early 16th c.)*
Treatise on the Pontificate of Prester John (1499)
The Great Magnificence of Prester John, Lord of Greater India and of Ethiopia (1499)
Letter from Johannes Africanus (1500)
Queen Eleni's Letter of Prester John (1509)
Letters of Afonso de Albuquerque (1515)
El Libro del Infante Dom Pedro (1515)
Orlando Furioso (1516)
Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus (1520)
If there are any other observations you would like to make, please use the "comment" box below.
