Prester John, legendary Christian priest-king, riding out from a city, 1540. In the 12th and 13th centuries Prester John was said to have been a powerful ruler in Asia, whilst in the 14th-16th centuries he was thought to have been king of Abyssinia. Title page of Ho Preste Joam das Indias. (Lisbon, 1540).
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