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# Otto of Freising, Chronicle of the Two Cities (Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus)

Bishop Hugh of Jabala tells Pope Eugenius III (1145) of John, a Nestorian king and priest in the far East beyond Persia and Armenia — the first mention of Prester John (7.33).

- **Language:** Latin
- **Date:** 1143–1146 CE
- **Author:** [Otto Frisingensis](https://indike.org/pramana/person/otto-freising)
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

## Translations (1)

- [The Two Cities](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.prester-john.otto-freising~en-mierow) — English, not yet digitised

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