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Prester John redivivus: a review article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Peter Jackson
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The development of the Prester John legend and matters associated with it are complex, and no significant work of book length in English has appeared on the subject since V. Slessarev's Prester John. The Letter and the Legend (1959). The recent publication of a collection of texts and interpretive essays will therefore be warmly welcomed. The texts are among those published by Zarncke in the Abhandlungen der königlichen sāchsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, vii (1879), and include the famous “letter” of Prester John, together with a note by Hamilton on additional Latin manuscripts that have since come to light. The essays comprise both reprints of work that has appeared over the past five decades and six fresh studies that now see the light of day for the first time.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , November 1997 , pp. 425 - 432
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1997

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