Map 3.2 : Textual Imaginings
Carignano Portolan Map (1305-1327)
Fra Paolino Map* (1320)*
The Travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone (1330)
Liber Peregrinationis (1335)*
"Dulcert" Chart (1339)
Book of Marvels (1340)
Liber Bellorum Domini (1342)*
Rémundar's Saga (1350)
Der Niederrheinischer Orientbericht (1350-1360)*
Decameron (1351)*
Le Chemin de la peregrinacion et du voyage (1351)
Liber de Rebus Memorabilibus (1355)*
The Book of John Mandeville (c. 1356-1360)
Eulogium Historiarum (1362 or before)*
History of the Three Kings (c. 1364-1375)
Letter of Prester John to Emperor Charles IV (c. 1370)
Catalan Atlas (1375)
Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms (1385)
Annales Hanoniae (late 14th c.)*
Itinerarius (c. 1389-1424)
King Henry IV of England Letter to Prester John (1400)*
The Canarien (c. 1402-1406)
King Charles VI of France Letter to Prester John (1406)*
Letter to Prester John from Grand Master of the Tuetonic Knights (1407)*
Annales omnium temporum (1407-1450)*
Fragmentary Scottish Letter of Prester John, found in Andrew of Wyntoun, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (c. 1420-1425)
Travels of Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal (1433)
Pope Eugenius IV Letters to Prester John (1438, 1439)*
Jean de Lastic's Letter to King Charles VII of France (1448)*
Universi Terrigene (early-mid 15th c.)*
Tractatus de Decem Nationibus et Sectis Christianorum (b. 1453)
The Chronicle of Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1453)
Travels and Adventures (1454)
Egyptus Novelo Map (c. 1454)*
Antoniotto Usodimare's Letter (1455)*
Pope Nicholas V's Letter to Prester John (1455)
Pope Calixtus III Letter to Prester John* (1456)
La Voyage d'Outremer (1457)*
Frau Mauro Map (1459)
Luigi da Cadamosto's Navigatio (c. 1450s)
Guerrino il Meschino (written c. 1409; published 1472)
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