Note 1335 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
Reading edition
The name “Prester John” was not used in early manuscripts of the Letter of Prester John. The letter of Pope Alexander III was discussed and edited critically by Zarncke in his Priester Johannes, in: Abhandlungen, vol. vii, 1879, pp. 935–946. See Yule, Marco Polo, 3rd edit., 1903 (under Polo, Marco, in the Bibliography), vol. i, p. 231.