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

Map 4.2 : Textual Imaginings

The Tale of the Indian Kingdom (1473-78)

Printed Letter of Prester John (1478)

On the Rites and ways of the Indians (1480-1481)

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)

Letters from Pêro da Covilhã (1493)

Nuremberg Chronicle [Liber Chronicarum] (1493)

Treatise on the Pontificate of Prester John (1499)

The Great Magnificence of Prester John, Lord of Greater India and of Ethiopia (1499)

The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1500)

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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