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Botschafft des grossmechtigsten Konigs Dauids, auss dem grossen vn[d] hohen Morenland, den man gemeinlich nennet Priester Johan, an Babst Clemens den Sibenden, zu Bononia verhört in offnem Consistorio am xxix. Tag Januarij Anno M.D.XXXiii. .

John, Prester, Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548 · 1533 · [Bonn? : s.n.] · 1 picture

This 1533 German pamphlet, printed in an unnamed place, purports to report an embassy from Prester John, king David of Ethiopia, heard before Pope Clement VII at Bologna. The one picture is a bookplate of the John Carter Brown Library, showing a lion above a shield with crossed diagonal stripes and roses, and the motto 'Auctor Pretiosa Facit' on a ribbon, with a handwritten monogram over it. A designer might take from it a heraldic emblem structure: a crest above a diagonally divided shield framed by scrolling ornament and a motto banner.

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