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

Map 5.2 : Textual Imaginings



English Letter of Prester John (1520)

Letters of Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1521)

Pope Leo X's Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal (1521)

A True Relation of the Lands of Prester John of the Indies (1526-1540)

The Embassy of the great Emperor of the Indians, Prester John, to Manuel, King of Portugal, in the year 1513 (1532)

The Christian Empire of Prester John (1532)

Embassy of David, King of Ethiopia, to the Most Holy Pope Our lord Clement VII (1533)*

The Voyage of Don Stefano da Gama from Goa to Suez  (1540)

Faith, Religion, and Manners of the Ethiopians* (1540)

Cosmographia (1544)*

Christmas Masque of Prester John (1547)

Description of Africa (1550)*

Image of Both Churches (b. 1552)

Decades of Asia (1552-1563)*

Fardle of Facions (1555)

Lendas da Índia (b. 1563)

Treatise on the Emperor of Ethiopia, Vulgarly Called Prester John (1565)*

Mercator World Map (1569) 

The Perergon (1573-98)

Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy González de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand 1403-6 (Published in 1582)

De Emendatione Temporum* (1583)

Principall Navigations (1589)

Trauailes of Edward Webbe (1590)

Report on the Kingdom of the Congo (1591)

Voyage of Linschoten to the East Indies (1596-98)

Tamburlaine (1598-1599)

Geography, or Description of the Whole Worlde (1599)

Much Ado About Nothing (1599)

​As You Like it (1600)

Don Quixote (1605)*

The Travels of Benedict Goes (1605)

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