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)
Itinerarius (c. 1389-1424)
The Canarien (1406)
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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