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

George Sale

George Sale (1697-1736) was British orientalist scholar known for his 1734 translation of the Qur'an, which later inspired Voltaire's "De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet." 

Along with Archibald Bower and George Psalmanazar, Sale composed A Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Timepublished in 1747, which briefly touches on the Prester John legend.