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Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo
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An Augustinian monk, biblical scholar, and author of several early printed works, Foresti (1434-1520) composed the Supplementum Chronicarum.
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12015-07-29T17:17:35-07:00Treatise on the Pontificate of Prester John3plain2023-12-20T09:44:34-08:00Printed in Cologne around 1499, this text represents another of the handful of "chapbook" compendiums of Prester John lore that began to circulate at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries.
The printer, Cornelis de Zierikzee assembled the Latin Letter of Prester John along with the De adventu, in addition to borrowing without acknowledgement the Prester John narrative contained in Jacopo Filippo Foresti's Supplementum Chronicarum.