[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 10.5 # Storia do Mogor 10.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 10.5 - **Language:** English ### [10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.10.5) Guided by the above passage in Zurla, I discovered and made extracts from Zanetti. Before going to Venice it was necessary to find out if the manuscript had ever been recovered. The questions I drew up were most kindly communicated by Dr. C. H. Hagberg Wright, of the London Library, to the librarian of San Marco. This inquiry produced a full and most interesting reply from the then librarian, Dr. Salomone Morpurgo, under date of March 29, 1899, the opening sentences referring to the volume of portraits which will be dealt with in a succeeding section. The following is a translation of this letter: 'The volume described by you certainly belongs to the Marciana, for it bears our old ex-libris, otherwise the lion and sword with the motto Custos vel ultor. With equal certainty it once formed part of Codex XLIV., described by Zanetti at p. 235 and following. The said Codex is to this day in the Marciana; but it was in 1797 bereft of this, its most precious part' \[quotes Zanetti\]. 'A marginal note on our exemplar of Zanetti announces that "the book of portraits was made over in 1797 to the Signor Brunet, the French commissary," and it was never subsequently restored. Zurla is inexact enough in his expression when he says the Manuzzi manuscript "was unfortunately mislaid in the late political troubles," for, instead of that, it was taken by force; but not the whole of it, as he (Zurla) seems to say. You can compare with the originals at Paris the three plates reproduced by Zanetti. - [Previous: 10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.10.4) - [Next: 10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.10.6) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.10.5) · Pramāṇa