Storia do Mogor 12.1797

12.1797

Manucci, in his Latin letter, mentions that, along with the three volumes of his History sent to Europe through M. Deslandes, he also forwarded a volume of portraits. Catrou (Preface of 1705, p. 4) speaks as if he had control over this volume also, being only deterred by fear of expense from reproducing some of its contents. He may have inspected the volume, but as he did not make it over to the Jesuits' College along with the three volumes of text, we may doubt if he had more than a passing connection with it. I have not been able to discover any trace of the date or the channel of transfer to Venice. That the volume did reach the St. Mark Library at that place we have ample proof. Zanetti catalogued it there in 1741, and reproduced three of the pictures, and, as the present librarian writes, their copy of that catalogue bears the marginal note that the volume of pictures was made over to the French in 1797.