Storia do Mogor 8.11

8.11

On the above the only remark I have to make is, that I doubt if the French passages are subsequent additions. Manucci, in one of his letters reproduced further on, ascribes the changes from Portuguese to French, or vice versa, to the necessity of using a language understood by his amanuensis of the moment. Certainly, as Herr Schulze points out, there is a long passage in vol. ii. where we have two versions, one Portuguese and one French, of exactly the same matter. I may add from a note by my copyist, Herr August Otto, that vol. i. is in four handwritings : (a) pp. 1 to 10, (b) 11-160, (c) 161-208, and (d) 209-280. On the margin of folio 2 in all three volumes are the words : 'Paraphe au devis de l'arrest du 5 Juillet, 1763, Mesnil.' For the present (translated) edition of Manucci, Parts I., II., and III., I have used the text of the Berlin MS., Phillipps No. 1945, in addition to pp. 417 to 477 of the Venice Codex, XLIV. (Zanetti), as at that point the two texts appear to diverge somewhat widely. I saw and made notes from the original at Berlin in June, 1901, and my transcript was made by Herr August Otto, whose services were kindly procured for me by Direktor-Professor Dr. L. Stern, of the Manuscript Department of the Royal Library.