Storia do Mogor 10.6

10.6

Thus, then, the text of the 'Memoirs,' Codex XLIV., remains in the Marciana, also the other volume mentioned by Zanetti, pictures of gods, priests, etc.; this is now placed in Classe VI., It. 136. In addition thereto we possess in manuscript (Classe VI., It. 345) descriptions of the portraits in the volume now at Paris, and I send the opening paragraph and the titles referring to each figure. Codex XLV. is still in its proper place on the shelves.' After that letter I was satisfied that my journey would not be fruitless ; but it was not till May, 1902, that I was able to visit Venice, inspect the manuscripts, and arrange to have them copied. As I have already said, I was convinced for a time that I was the first discoverer of this Venice Codex since Zanetti's and Foscarini's time. But I had not reckoned with the Teutonic genius for research : an eighteenth-century German professor had been before me. There are some rather interesting particulars in J. Bernoulli's note, and as it does not seem to be printed in the more commonly accessible French edition of the ' Recherches sur l'Inde,' I insert it from the German edition, ' Beschreibung von Hindustan,' Band II., Theil II. (1788), pp. 192, 193 :