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

Map 2.2: Textual Imaginings




History of the Tartars [Historia Tartarum] (c. 1246)

History of the Mongols [Ystoria Mongalorum] (1247)

Tartar Relation [Hystoria Tartarorum] (1247)*

Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1249)*

Alberic's Chronicle [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium] (1232-1241)

Chronica Majorica (b. 1253)*

Travels of William of Rubruck [Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratia 1253 ad partes Orientales] (c. 1253-1255)

Mirror of History [Speculum Historiale] (1256-1269) 

Historia Anglorum (b. 1259)*
 
King's Mirror [Konungs Skuggsjá] (c. 1250)

Annales Sancti Rudberti Salisburgenses (c. 1250-1270)*

Mari Historiarum (written from 1250-1340)*

Bonum Universale de Apibus (b. 1263)*

Opus Majus (1267)*

Younger Titurel [Der jüngere Titurel] (c. 1270)

Mongolian Report at Second Council of Lyon (1274)*

Chronicon Syriacum [Makhtbhanuth Zabhne] (c. 1258-1286)

The Travels of Marco Polo [Divisament dou monde] (c. 1298)

Flores Temporum Imperatores (late 13th c.)*

Riccolda d Monte di Croce's Itinerarius* (1300)

The Tree of Seth* (c. 1300)

Gesta Ludovici IX (c. 1301) 

Second Letter of John of Monte Corvino (1305)

Life of St. Louis [Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs] (1305-1309)

Il Novellino/The Hundred Old Tales [Le ciento novelle antike] (c. 1290-1300)

The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross [Liber Fidelium Crucis] (c. 1300-1321)*

Disputatio cum Hamar Sarraceni (1309)*

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