Storia do Mogor 11.4

11.4

Codex CCCXLV., in Class VI., an octavo volume, is the last of the four Manucci manuscripts now in the San Marco library at Venice, and contains Italian descriptions of the pictures in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. With the pictures at Paris are bound up similar descriptions in French. The 'Marciana Codex of Manucci' is quoted as one of the sources of the notice on him in 'Studii biografici e bibliografici sulla storia della geographia in Italia,' by P. Amat di S. Filippo (second edition, Roma, 1882), vol. i., p. 440, along with Zurla, of whom I have spoken, Legrenzi and Foscarini. Of these last I shall speak when I come to the story of Manucci's life. Some slight errors I have noted in the above work are: Caton for Catrou, 1705 for 1705, 8vo for 4to and 12o, 1737 for 1731 (Venice translation). Deslandes did not translate the work into French, but conveyed it to France; for trasporto in francese, read in Francia. Nor were Parts IV. and V. sent home in 1705, but Part IV. in 1706 and Part V. still later.