[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 8.5 # Storia do Mogor 8.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 8.5 - **Language:** English ### [8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.8.5) Collegii Claromontani | quern | excipit Catalogio Mssm | Domes Professae | Parisienses | . . . . | Parisiis in Palatio | apud Sugrain subsigno Bonae Fidei coronatse Leclerc subsigno Prudentise | M DCC LXIV.' In it Manucci's ' Storia ' appears on p. 324 as No. DCCCLVI. Orme is wrong in asserting it does not appear there, perhaps because he only looked at the catalogue of printed books, which is a separate work. The manuscript is described as written in Portuguese, with several portions of it in French; three volumes in folio, the first of 142, the second of 151, and the third of 132 folios. A notice is inserted that the contents were to be sold on ... next (1764) unless bought in bulk, and offers were invited. The king's librarian, Bignon, refused to buy. Baron Gerard Meerman, of the Hague, began negotiations, and a price of 15,000 livres was agreed on for 856 manuscripts, among them being included the three volumes of Manucci. Omont gives an amusing account of the after-attempts to cancel this transaction, and the difficulties surmounted by the purchaser in removing acquisitions from France. His boxes were stopped at ... and forty-two volumes relating to the history of France were claimed. He gave up thirty-seven works (thirty-nine volumes). The remainder reached the Hague in April, 1765. As a reward for this concession, Louis XV. conferred on Meerman the Order of St. Michael (see 'Histoire generale du Cabinet des MSS. - [Previous: 8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.8.4) - [Next: 8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.8.6) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.8.5) · Pramāṇa