Storia do Mogor 8.8

8.8

The description of the Manucci 'Storia do Mogor,' acquired by the Royal Library in Berlin, appears in 'Die Romanische Meerman Handschriften des Sir Thomas Phillipps in der Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin' beschrieben von Alfred Schulze Berlin 1892, 4to., p. 24, in the following terms as translated by me from the German original: Codices Phillipici. Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Manuscripts, 39 Phill. 1945. Paper, three folio volumes, of 144, 155, and 135 folios respectively (size 33 to 35 mm. by 21 to 23 mm.) of the eighteenth century. Leather binding, Meerman No. 917, Coll. Paris. Soc. Jesu, No. 856. The Portuguese text shows the following gaps, which were afterwards filled up in French: Vol. I., leaves 1 to 6; Vol. III., leaves 1 to 34 and 47 to 49. In Vol. II., on leaves 23 to 43, is a French text, giving a translation of the Portuguese on the preceding leaves 1 to 22. Vol. II., leaf 44, and Vol. III., leaves 44 to 46, 70 to 73, 80 to 84, 94, and 125 are blank. Nicolao Manuchi, 'History of the Mogul Kingdom.' Vol. I., folio 1a: 'Voyage et histoire du Mogol divise en trois parties par M. Nicholas Manuchi, Venitien. Premiere Partie, contenant le voyage de Nicholas Manuchi, son arrivee au Mogol, etc. L'histoire des rois Mogols, depuis Tamerlang jusque a l'evenement d'Aurangzeb au trone.'