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

Map 3.2 : Textual Imaginings



Carignano Portolan Map (1305-1327)


The Travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone (1330)

Liber Peregrinationis* (1335)

"Dulcert" Chart (1339)


Book of Marvels (1340)

Rémundar's Saga (1350) 

Le Chemin de la peregrinacion et du voyage (1351)

The Book of John Mandeville (c. 1356-1360)

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)

The Canarien (1406)

Itinerarius (c. 1400-1424)

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)

The Chronicle of Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1453)

Travels and Adventures (1454)


Egyptus Novelo Map (c. 1454)*


Pope Nicholas V's Letter to Prester John (1456)

Frau Mauro Map (1459)

Guerrino il Meschino (written c. 1409; published 1472)


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