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

Nuremberg Chronicle

Published in Nuremberg in 1493, composed in Latin, and later translated into German,  Hartmann Schedel's Chronicle (sometimes known in English as Schedel's World Chronicle) was commissioned by Sebald Schreyer (1446–1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1503). The text is an illustrated universal chronicle that reflects Europe's understanding of the wider fifteenth century world.  It remains untranslated into English. 

Schedel touches briefly on Prester John, locating the legend's beginnings in the Letter of Prester John and, as Brewer (p. 286) suggests, the De Adventu as well. Following earlier Portuguese material related to the myth of Dom Pedro (notably the anonymous Travels of Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal and Santisteban's Book of Dom Pedro), Schedel locates Prester John in Cathay (China). 

The text also contains a woodcut of a very European Prester John. 

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