Storia do Mogor 10.1

10.1

This volume is thus described in Zanetti's Catalogue, p. 237: 'Codex XLV., in small folio, on paper, 740 folios, of the eighteenth century. An Italian version of Manuzzi's 'Historical Memoirs of the Moguls,' made by Count Stefano Nivibus Cardeira, Portuguese, the Public Professor of Civil Law in the University of Padua.' The volume begins with the Third Part (the pages are not numbered) ; after that another portion begins ' Delli elefanti,' of which the pages are numbered 1 to 260. Next is the Fourth Part, with Preface, on folios 1 to 197. Lastly is the Fifth Part, with a title-page: 'Parte Quinta | della Storia del Mogol | di | Nicolo Manuci Veneziano | Transportato | dell' Idioma Portoghesi all' Italiano | dal | Co. Diego Cardeira | Portoghese | ,' followed by an Italian letter of February 20, 1712, sending the Fifth Part of the translation, the signature is that of Agostino Gadaldini, then Secretary to the Venetian Senate, as Dr. Coggiola informs me. The writer speaks of having made over Part V. to Senhor Cardeira's sons for translation, and states that folios 2 to 90 (of the original) were part in Portuguese and part in French, to which must be added ' eleven detached leaves in one or the other tongue.' Next comes a leaf, written on both sides, and not numbered (probably displaced in binding). Then another title-page : ' Tome Quinto | composite per l'autore | Signor | Manucci di | Nazione Veneziano in questa | Fortezza di S. Giorgio | di Madrastapattam. |