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

Tartar Relation [Hystoria Tartarorum]

Brewer (p. 277) relates that the Tartar Relation, composed by a man who signed his name "C. de Bridia," "is simply a copy of the story John de Plano Carpini relates about how Ihe army of Prester John repulsed the Mongols by setting up images of men and blowing fire through them."

Other scholars disagree about whether or not C. de Bridia, who describes himself as "least of the Franciscans," was sent by Pope Innocent IV on the missionary trip with Carpini to visit Batu Khan and Güyük Khan. 

See George D. Painter, ed. and trans., in R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston and George D. Painter, eds., The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (London, 1965), pp. 68-71.

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