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Prester John

A MELVYL Bibliography


  
1.   
Author:           Alcripe, Philippe d', 16th cent.  
Title:            La nouvelle fabrique des excellens traits de verite; livre  
                    pour inciter les resveurs tristes et merancoliques a vivre  
                    de plaisir par Philippe d'Alcripe, sieur de Neri en Verbos.  
Place:            Paris,  
Publisher:        P. Jannet,  
Date:             1853.  
  
2.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco.  
Title:            Verdadeira informacao das terras do preste Joao das Indias /  
                    pelo Padre Francisco Alvares.  
                  Ho preste Ioam das Indias, verdadera informacam dad terras do  
                    preste Joam.  
Place:            Lisboa :  
Publisher:        Imprensa nacional,  
Date:             1889.  
  
3.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
Title:            Verdadeira informacao das terras do preste Joao das Indias.  
Place:            [Lisboa] :  
Publisher:        Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos,  
Date:             1966.  
  
4.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
Title:            Historia de las cosas de Etiopia : en la qval se cuenta muy  
                    copiosamente, el estado y pote[n]cia del Emperador della,  
                    (que es el que muchos an pensado ser el Preste Ivan), con  
                    otras infinitas particularidades ... / Francisco Aluarez ;  
                    agora nueuamente traduzido de Portugues en Castellano por  
                    Thomas de Padilla.  
Place:            Anvers :  
Publisher:        Iuan Steelsio,  
Date:             1557.  
  
5.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
Title:            Ityopya Portugezocc Zndiyyuat.  
Place:            Lisboa,  
Publisher:        Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos,  
Date:             1966.  
  
6.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
                  Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903, ed. and  
                    tr.  
Title:            Narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the  
                    years 1520-1527. By Father Francisco Alvarez. Tr. from the  
                    Portuguese, and ed., with notes and an introduction, by  
                    Lord Stanley of Alderley.  
Place:            London,  
Publisher:        Printed for the Hakluyt society,  
Date:             1881.  
  
7.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
Title:            The Prester John of the Indies; a true relation of the lands  
                    of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese  
                    embassy to Ethiopia in 1520. The translation of Lord  
                    Stanley of Alderley (1881) rev. and edited with additional  
                    material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford.  
Place:            Cambridge, Eng.,  
Publisher:        Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press  
Date:             1961.  
  
8.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
                  Reis Machado, Augusto.  
                  Portugal. Agencia Geral das Colonias. Divisao de Publicacoes  
                    e Biblioteca.  
                  Portugal. Ministerio do Ultramar.  
Title:            Verdadeira informacao das terras do preste Joao das Indias,  
                    pelo padre Francisco Alvares. Prefaciada, anotada e  
                    actualizada na grafia por Augusto Reis Machado.  
Place:            [Lisboa]  
Publisher:        Divisao de publicacoes e biblioteca, Agencia geral das  
                    colonias,  
Date:             1943.  
  
9.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
Title:            Verdadeira informacao das terras do preste Joao das Indias,  
                    pelo padre Francisco Alvares.  
Place:            Lisboa,  
Publisher:        Imprensa nacional,  
Date:             1889.  
  
10.   
Author:           Alvares, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
Title:            The Voyage of Sir Francis Alvarez, a Portugall Priest, made  
                    vnto the Court of Prete Ianni, the great Christian Emperour  
                    of Ethiopia.  
  
11.   
Author:           Alvarez, Francisco, d. ca. 1540.  
                  Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903.  
Title:            Narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the  
                    year 1520-1527 / by Father Francisco Alvarez ; translated  
                    from the Portuguese, and edited, with notes and  
                    introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley.  
Place:            New York :  
Publisher:        B. Franklin,  
Date:             1970.  
  
12.   
Title:            Asiatische und africanische denkwurdigkeiten dieser zeit, das  
                    ist, beschreibung der konigreiche, herrschafften und lander  
                    dess grossen mogols, des s grossen neguz, oder so genannten  
                    Priester Johannis, des konigreichs von Argier, und der  
                    lander Barbaria und Mauritania neben dem africanischen  
                    judenthum ...  
Place:            Nurnberg,  
Publisher:        W.M. & J.A. Endter,  
Date:             1676.  
  
13.   
Author:           Beckingham, C. F. (Charles Fraser), 1914-  
                  University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.  
Title:            The achievements of Prester John: an inaugural lecture  
                    delivered on 17 May 1966, by C. F. Beckingham.  
Place:            London,  
Publisher:        University of London (School of Oriental & African Studies);  
                    distributed by Luzac,  
Date:             1966.  
  
14.   
Author:           Benoit, Pierre, 1886-1962.  
Title:            Le Pretre Jean, roman.  
Place:            Paris,  
Publisher:        Michel  
Date:             [1952]  
  
15.   
Author:           Bermudes, Joao, d. 1570.  
                  Lima Felner, Rodrigo Jose de.  
Title:            Breve relacao da embaixada que o patriarcha D. Joao Bermudez  
                    trouxe do imperador da Ethiopia vulgarmete chamado Preste  
                    Joao dirigida a el-rei D. Sebastiao ...  
Place:            [Lisboa,  
Publisher:        Typ. da Academia real das sciencias,  
Date:             1875]  
  
16.   
Author:           Buchan, John, 1875-1940.  
                  Cele, John F.  
Title:            UPrester John. Ihunyushwe ngu-J.F. Cele.  
Place:            Johannesburg,  
Publisher:        Bantu's Pub. Home  
Date:             [1960]  
  
17.   
Author:           Castanhoso, Miguel de, d. 1565?  
                  Peres de Lima, Augusto Cesar, 1883- ed.  
Title:            Historia das cousas que o mui esforcado capitao dom Cristovao  
                    da Gama fez nos reinos do Preste Joao,.  
Place:            Porto,  
Publisher:        Livraria Simoes Lopes de D. Barreira,  
Date:             1936.  
  
18.   
Author:           Covilha, Pedro da, fl. 1487-1515.  
Title:            A Discourse of Peter Covillan: Of the Pretes gifts and  
                    presents, and the Portugals quarrels, and their licence to  
                    depart out of the Countrey.  
  
19.   
Author:           Gois, Damiao de, 1502-1574.  
                  David II, Negus of Ethiopia, ca. 1500-1540.  
                  Helena, Queen regent of Abyssinia, fl. 1508.  
                  Uhlig, Siegbert.  
                  Buhring, Gernot.  
Title:            Damian de Gois' Schrift uber Glaube und Sitten der Athiopier  
                    / [herausgegeben von] Siegbert Uhlig, Gernot Buhring.  
Place:            Wiesbaden :  
Publisher:        Harrasowitz,  
Date:             1994.  
  
20.   
Author:           Guericke, Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand, 1803-1878.  
Title:            Die Hypothese von dem Presbyter Johannes als Verfasser der  
                    Offenbarung / gepruft von H. E. Ferd. Guerike ; nebst  
                    excursen uber die Abfassungszeit und Aechtheit der  
                    Apocalypse.  
Place:            Halle :  
Publisher:        in der Gebauerschen Buchhandlung,  
Date:             1831.  
  
21.   
Author:           Gumilev, L. N. (Lev Nikolaevich), 1912-  
Title:            Searches for an imaginary kingdom : the legend of the kingdom  
                    of Prester John / L.N. Gumilev ; translated by R.E.F.  
                    Smith.  
Place:            Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :  
Publisher:        Cambridge University Press,  
Date:             1987.  
  
22.   
Author:           Harrison, Edith Ogden.  
Title:            Princess Sayrance; a romance of the days of Prester John, by  
                    Edith Ogden Harrison ... with four pictures in color by  
                    Harold H. Betts.  
Place:            Chicago,  
Publisher:        A. C. McClurg & co.,  
Date:             1910.  
  
23.   
Author:           Ullendorff, Edward.  
                  Beckingham, C. F. (Charles Fraser), 1914-  
                  University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.  
Title:            The Hebrew letters of Prester John / [translated and edited]  
                    by Edward Ullendorff and C.F. Beckingham.  
Place:            Oxford ; New York :  
Publisher:        Oxford University Press,  
Date:             1982.  
  
24.   
Author:           Hese, Joannes de.  
                  Mameranus, Nicolaus, ed.  
Title:            Peregrinatio Joan. Hesei ab vrbe Hiervsalem institvta, et per  
                    Indiam, Aethiopiam, aliasque quasdam remotas mundi nationes  
                    ducta; quarum situs, insulas, flumina, montes, mores &  
                    diuersitates hominum, animalia, monstra, & mirabilia multa,  
                    nostro orbi incognita describit, cognitu lectuque iucunda,  
                    & vtilia. Caetera contenta in hoc libello proxima pagina  
                    post epist. indicabit..  
                  Peregrinatio Joan. Hesei ab urbe Hierusalem instituta.  
Place:            Antverpiae,  
Publisher:        excudebat I. VVithagius,  
Date:             1565.  
  
25.   
Author:           Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873, ed.  
Title:            Abyssinia and its people; or, Life in the land of Prester  
                    John.  
Place:            New York,  
Publisher:        Negro Universities Press  
Date:             [1969]  
  
26.   
Author:           John, Prester.  
                  Gosman, Martin.  
Title:            La lettre du Pretre Jean : les versions en ancien francais et  
                    en ancien occitan, textes et commentaires / edition d'apres  
                    les manuscrits connus par Martin Gosman.  
Place:            Groningen :  
Publisher:        Bouma's Boekhuis,  
Date:             1982.  
  
27.   
Author:           Kampers, Franz, 1868-1929.  
Title:            Alexander der Grosse und die idee des weltimperiums in  
                    prophetie und sage. Grundlinien, materialien und  
                    forschungen von dr. Franz Kampers.  
Place:            Freiburg i. Br., St. Louis, Mo. [etc.]  
Publisher:        Herder,  
Date:             1901.  
  
28.   
Author:           Le Picard, Philippe, 16th cent.  
Title:            La nouvelle fabrique des excellens traits de verite;.  
Place:            Paris,  
Publisher:        P. Jannet,  
Date:             1853.  
  
29.   
Author:           Lecouteux, Claude.  
Title:            Kleine Texte zur Alexandersage : mit einem Anhang: Prestre  
                    Jean / von Claude Lecouteux.  
                  Prestre Jean.  
Place:            Goppingen :  
Publisher:        Kummerle,  
Date:             1984.  
  
30.   
Author:           Leslau, Wolf.  
Title:            The land of Prester John; problems and challenges. Faculty  
                    Research lecture, Los Angeles, University of California,  
                    Los Angeles, Dec. 2, 1965.  
Place:            [Los Angeles,  
Date:             c1968]  
  
31.   
Author:           Zaganelli, Gioia.  
Title:            La Lettera del Prete Gianni / a cura di Gioia Zaganelli.  
Place:            Parma :  
Publisher:        Pratiche Editrice,  
Date:             c1990 (1992 printing)  
  
32.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Costa, M. Goncalves da, ed.  
Title:            Itinerario, e outros escritos ineditos [por] Jeronimo Lobo.  
                    Edicao critica pelo P. e M. Goncalves da Costa, com a  
                    colaboracao de Charles F. Beckingham e Donald M. Lockhart.  
Place:            [Porto]  
Publisher:        Livraria Civilizacao  
Date:             [1971]  
  
33.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712.  
                  Matini, Piero.  
Title:            Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione inglese dell'  
                    originale portoghese.  
Place:            Firenze,  
Publisher:        P. Matini,  
Date:             1693.  
  
34.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?  
Title:            A short relation of the river Nile : of its source and curent  
                    : of its overflowing the campagnia of Egypt, till it runs  
                    into the Mediterranean : and of other curiosities / written  
                    by an eye-witness who lived many years in the chief  
                    kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.  
Place:            London :  
Publisher:        Printed for John Martin ...,  
Date:             1673.  
  
35.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?  
                  Lackington, Allen & Co.  
Title:            A short relation of the River Nile, of its source and  
                    current; of its overflowing the campagnia of Egypt, till it  
                    runs into the Mediterranean; and of other curiosities. With  
                    a new preface. Written by an eye witness, who lived many  
                    years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.  
Place:            London,  
Publisher:        Printed for Lackington, Allen, & co.,  
Date:             1798.  
  
36.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?  
Title:            A short relation of the river Nile : of its sourse and  
                    current, of its overflowing the Campagnia of Agypt, till it  
                    runs into the Mediterranean, and of other curiosities /  
                    written by an eye-witnesse, who lived many years in the  
                    chief kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.  
Place:            London :  
Publisher:        Printed for John Martyn ...,  
Date:             1669.  
  
37.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699? tr.  
Title:            A short relation of the river Nile, of its sourse and  
                    current; of its overflowing the campagnia of AEgypt, till  
                    it runs into the Mediterranean: and of other curiosities.  
                    Written by an eye-witness, who lived many years in the  
                    chief kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.  
Place:            London,  
Publisher:        Printed for John Martin, printer to the Royal Society ...  
Date:             1673.  
  
38.   
Author:           Lobo, Jeronimo, 1596?-1678.  
                  Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?  
Title:            A short relation of the river Nile : of its sourse and  
                    current, of its overflowing the Campagnia of Agypt, till it  
                    runs into the Mediterranean, and of other curiosities /  
                    written by an eye-witnesse, who lived many years in the  
                    chief kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.  
Place:            London :  
Publisher:        Printed for John Martyn ...,  
Date:             1669.  
  
39.   
Author:           Miles, John, fl. 1684.  
                  Gentleman.  
Title:            A true relation of the great victory, obtained by the King of  
                    the Abissines called Prester John, against the Turks : in  
                    taking the flourishing city of Habalee, and destroying  
                    10,000 Ottomons : as also a coppy of a letter from on board  
                    of His Majesties ship the Pearl, (riding then at Lisbon) /  
                    from a gentleman to his brother in London, giving an  
                    account of several remarkable passages and rencounters  
                    against the Sally men.  
Place:            London :  
Publisher:        Printed by G. Croom ...,  
Date:             1684.  
  
40.   
Author:           Pirenne, Jacqueline.  
Title:            La legende du "Pretre Jean" / Jacqueline Pirenne.  
Place:            Strasbourg :  
Publisher:        Presses universitaires de Strasbourg,  
Date:             1992.  
  
41.   
Title:            Presbyter Johannes, paa Dansk kaldet Jon Praest. Paa ny  
                    optrykt efter Gotfred af Ghemens udgave, Kjobenhavn 1510.  
                    Ledsaget af en kort historisk indledning ved P.K. Thorsen.  
Place:            [Kjobenhavn,  
Publisher:        Bernsteen,  
Date:             1898]  
  
42.   
Author:           Rachewiltz, Igor de.  
Title:            Prester John and Europe's discovery of East Asia [by] I. De  
                    Rachewiltz.  
Place:            Canberra,  
Publisher:        Australian National University Press,  
Date:             1972.  
  
43.   
Author:           Rey, Charles Fernand, 1877-  
Title:            The romance of the Portuguese in Abyssinia; an account of the  
                    adventurous journeys of the Portuguese to the empire of  
                    Prester John, their assistance to Ethiopia in its struggle  
                    against Islam and their subsequent efforts to impose their  
                    own influence and religion, 1490-1633, by Charles F. Rey.  
Place:            New York,  
Publisher:        Negro Universities Press  
Date:             [1969]  
  
44.   
Author:           Rogers, Francis Millet.  
                  Santisteban, Gomez de. Travels of the Infante Dom Pedro of  
                    Protugal.  
Title:            The travels of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal.  
Place:            Camrbidge,  
Publisher:        Harvard University Press,  
Date:             1961.  
  
45.   
Author:           Sanceau, Elaine.  
                  Santos, Jose Francisco dos, tr.  
Title:            Em demanda do preste Joao,.  
Place:            [Porto]  
Publisher:        Livraria Civilizacao  
Date:             [1944]  
  
46.   
Author:           Sanceau, Elaine.  
                  Santos, Jose Francisco dos.  
Title:            Em domanda do Presto Joao, com notas da autora para esta  
                    edicao. Traduco do dr. Jose Francisco dos Santos.  
Place:            [Oporto]  
Publisher:        Livraria civilizacao  
Date:             [1939]  
  
47.   
Author:           Sanceau, Elaine.  
Title:            The land of Prester John, a chronicle of Portuguese  
                    exploration, by Elaine Sanceau.  
Place:            New York,  
Publisher:        Knopf,  
Date:             1944.  
  
48.   
Author:           Sanceau, Elaine.  
Title:            Os Portugueses na Etiopia. Illustracoes de Antonio Lucena.  
Place:            Porto,  
Publisher:        Livraria Civilizacao  
Date:             [1961]  
  
49.   
Author:           Sanceau, Elaine.  
Title:            Portugal in quest of Prester John, by Elaine Sanceau.  
Place:            London, New York  
Publisher:        Hutchinson & co., ltd.  
Date:             [1943]  
  
50.   
Author:           Silverberg, Robert.  
Title:            The realm of Prester John.  
Place:            Garden City, N.Y.,  
Publisher:        Doubleday,  
Date:             1972.  
  
51.   
Author:           Slessarev, Vsevolod.  
                  John, Prester.  
Title:            Prester John; the letter and the legend.  
Place:            Minneapolis,  
Publisher:        University of Minnesota Press  
Date:             [1959]  
  
52.   
Author:           Whiteway, Richard Stephen, comp.  
                  Bermudes, Joao, d. 1570. Esta he hua breue relacao da  
                    embaisada q o patriarcha Do Joao Bermudez trouxe do  
                    emperado da Ethiopia. English. 1902.  
                  Castanhoso, Miguel de, d. 1565? Historia das cousas que o muy  
                    esforcado capitao Dom Christovao da Gama fez nos reynos do  
                    Preste Joao. English. 1902.  
                  Correa, Gaspar, 16th cent. Lendas da India. English. 1902.  
Title:            The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as  
                    narrated by Castanhoso, with some contemporary letters, the  
                    short account of Bermudez, and certain extracts from  
                    Correa.  
Place:            London,  
Publisher:        Printed for the Hakluyt Society,  
Date:             1902.  
  
53.   
Author:           Whiteway, Richard Stephen, comp.  
                  Castanhoso, Miguel de, d. 1565? Historia das cousas que o muy  
                    esforcado capitao Dom Christovao da Gama fez nos reynos do  
                    Preste Joao. English. 1967.  
                  Bermudes, Joao, d. 1570. Esta he hua breue relacao da  
                    embaisada q o patriarcha Do Joao Bermudez trouxe do  
                    emperado da Ethiopia. English. 1967.  
                  Correa, Gaspar, 16th cent. Lendas da India. English. 1967.  
Title:            The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as  
                    narrated by Castanhoso, with some contemporary letters, the  
                    short account of Bermudez, and certain extracts from  
                    Correa. Translated and edited by R. S. Whiteway.  
Place:            London,  
Publisher:        Printed for the Hakluyt Society,  
Date:             1902.  
  
54.   
Author:           Whiteway, Richard Stephen, comp.  
                  Castanhoso, Miguel de, d. 1565? Historia das cousas que o muy  
                    esforcado capitao Dom Christovao da Gama fez nos reynos do  
                    Preste Joao. English. 1967.  
                  Bermudes, Joao, d. 1570. Esta he hua breue relacao da  
                    embaisada q o patriarcha Do Joao Bermudez trouxe do  
                    emperado da Ethiopia. English. 1967.  
                  Correa, Gaspar, 16th cent. Selections. Lendas da India.  
                    English. 1967.  
Title:            The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as  
                    narrated by Castanhoso, with some contemporary letters, the  
                    short account of Bermudez, and certain extracts from  
                    Correa. Translated and edited by R. S. Whiteway.  
Place:            Nendeln, Liechtenstein,  
Publisher:        Kraus Reprint,  
Date:             1967.  
  
55.   
Author:           Wion, Frida.  
Title:            Le Royaume inconnu, etude historique, du royaume du  
                    Pretre-Jean a l'empire de l'Agarttha.  
Place:            Paris,  
Publisher:        Editions le Courrier du livre,  
Date:             1966.  
  
56.   
Author:           Zarncke, Friedrich Karl Theodor, 1825-1891.  
Title:            Der Priester Johannes / Friedrich Zarncke.  
Place:            Hildesheim ; New York :  
Publisher:        Olms,  
Date:             1980.  
  
57.   
Author:           Gumilev, L. N. (Lev Nikolaevich), 1912-  
Title:            Poiski vymyshlennogo tsarstva : legenda o "Gosudarstve  
                    presvitera Ioanna" / L.N. Gumilev.  
Place:            Moskva :  
Publisher:        Di-Dik,  
Date:             1994.  
  
58.   
Author:           Miles, John, fl. 1684.  
                  Gentleman.  
Title:            A true relation of the great victory, obtained by the King of  
                    the Abissines called Prester John, against the Turks : in  
                    taking the flourishing city of Habalee, and destroying  
                    10,000 Ottomons : as also a coppy of a letter from on board  
                    of His Majesties ship the Pearl, (riding then at Lisbon) /  
                    from a gentleman to his brother in London, giving an  
                    account of several remarkable passages and rencounters  
                    against the Sally men.  
Place:            London :  
Publisher:        Printed by G. Croom ...,  
Date:             1684.  
  


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