Storia do Mogor 8.10

8.10

The work of Manouchi has never been printed. On the other hand, founding himself on this production, the Jesuit Father François Catrou published 'Histoire generale de l'Empire du Mogol depuis sa fondation jusqu'a present sur memoires portugais de M. Manouchi, Venitien.' The first two parts appeared in Paris in 1705 in small octavo, the last two parts much later. As to the different editions, see Backer, 'Biblioth. des Ecriv. de la Comp. de Jesus,' tome i., pp. 1135 et seq.; and refer also to J. Talboys Wheeler, 'The History of India from the Earliest Ages' (London, 1867), vol. iv., part i., Preface, pp. xii.-xiv. Since the English translations of 1709 and 1826 were both prepared from the re-impression of the French issue published at the Hague in 1708, and end with the accession of Aurangzeb, Wheeler was misled into the statement on his p. xiii that Catrou's work was never completed. Phillipps 1945 is with very little doubt the manuscript mentioned by Catrou in his preface (not paged).