[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) › 9.3 # Storia do Mogor 9.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 9.3 - **Language:** English ### [9.3.1902](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.9.3.1902) Zanetti's volume includes three fine copper-plate engravings: 1. Orangzeb, XI. (Blochet, 'Inventaire,' No. 13); the emperor is on a white horse, reading, and there are twenty-five other figures round him on foot. 2. Tamur-lang, I. (Blochet, No. 3). A jungle scene, Taimur on one knee, shooting: thirty-one other figures. 3. Portrait of Niccolao Manuzzi, author of the 'History of the Mogul' (Blochet, No. 2). A stout, white-faced, entirely shaven man in Indian costume looking to the left and holding the pulse of a very dark man. The assertion of Cardinal Placido Zurla is inaccurate in stating that the Manucci manuscript 'was unfortunately mislaid in the late political troubles,' meaning the days of Napoleon's invasion, his remark, as we shall see presently, applying only to the volume of portraits. Codex XLIV. (Zanetti) is still in its place at Venice, and I proceed to give further details, such as I was able to glean from an inspection of it in May, 1902. ### [9.3.1704](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.9.3.1704) Codex XLIV. is a large folio of 778 pages, the paper used being of several different sizes ; it is bound in calf, and stamped on one side with a lozenge-shaped shield bearing the figure of a winged lion holding in its paw a book, with the letters P E T M M (in other words, it bears the arms of the republic) ; it is lettered on the back, ' Manuzzi, Istoria de' Mogoli.' Loose within it are the two leaves of the Latin letter already quoted, the signature to which appears to be in the hand of a scribe ; also four leaves, two written on in Italian, apparently not in the same writing as the Latin letter, but signed on the third line of the second page ' Nicolao Manuci.' A facsimile of this signature is inserted beneath our reproduction of the second portrait of the author. The first two pages (in Italian), 'Notice to the Reader,' are not numbered, and at the end bear the signature ' Nicolao Manuci,' which we have reproduced at the foot of the younger of the two portraits. The small cramped handwriting of the earlier part might be the same as that of the second letter. The MS. Phillipps 1945, at Berlin, is, on the contrary, in a fair copyist's hand. The first handwriting of Codex XLIV. continues up to p. 366 (in Italian). On pp. 367-406 the hand resembles that of the Berlin MS. ; on p. 407 the first hand recommences. Pp. 416-616 are on a smaller (foolscap) paper, and here the third part apparently ends. The subjects of this third part are as follows — it begins on p. 149 : p. 170 (year 1664), p. 212 (year 1666), p. 304, titles of princesses and concubines; p. 305, men's titles; p. 307, palace slaves; p. 320, names of generals; p. 322, Mansabs; p. 337, provinces; p. 340, names of peoples. On some unnumbered leaves following p. 366 he explains that ' for want of writers of Italian, I am obliged to continue my work in French.' From p. 368 he goes on in French up to p. 406. On p. 407 Portuguese begins, ' On Elephants,' down to p. 415. P. 416 is blank. On p. 417 he begins (still in Portuguese) about AdunI ; p. 419, the royal seal and hand imprint ; pp. 421 to 423, blank ; pp. 424-427, the Dakhin kings ; p. 450, principal Hindu temples ; p. 451, temples destroyed by Aurangzeb; p. 455, Joao P. de Faria in Madras; p. 465, St. Thome in 1695; p. 474, Damao in 1681; p. 479, Manuel Macedo at St. Thome; p. 501, one quarter blank; p. 502, blank; p. 503, begins 'serviço' (? a misplaced leaf); p. 511, year 1663; p. 565, year 1678; p. 582, Bassein in 1666; p. 606, year 1694. Page 616 ends with the words: 'Lagrima de sangue emover o modo tao improprio e tao diverço do que antigamte obravaon.' Then on an intermediate size of paper begins in French 'Suite . . . Quatriesme Partie, Preface,' with a new paging, and in a handwriting something like that of the Berlin MS. The history breaks off on p. 122; then pp. 123 and 124 are blank. On p. 125 the author commences to speak of the bad conduct of the Portuguese, and this subject goes on as far as p. 145, attestations from various authorities beginning on p. 140. Between pp. 140 and 141 are bound in four 4to. pages of minute handwriting, apparently the copy of a certificate from the Bishop and Vicar-General of St. Thome, dated January 23, 1705. Pp. 148 to 152 are blank. Next, with p. 153, comes the large folio paper once more, the writing being that of a copyist, and the language French; mention is made of 1703; and the French text ends with one line on the top of p. 164. On p. 165 there begins in Portuguese an account of Cardinal C. M. de Tournon's stay at Pondicherry. On p. 175 is a date, July 11, 1704. On p. 177 is Manucci's 'Manifesto' to the Friars and Patriarch at Pondicherry, which ends on p. 182, being followed by the Archbishop's letter from Goa, dated September 1, 1704. ### [9.3.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.9.3.p3) On p. 184 the handwriting changes, and the historical narrative is resumed without any heading; on p. 186 is the date, September 9, 1704. On p. 200 we return to more talk about the Portuguese misdeeds, which ends on p. 216. Page 217 is a half-sheet only, apparently intended as the conclusion of Part IV.; and there Manucci promises, if he lives, to go on with a Fifth Part, and the passage is dated Madras, January 5, 1705-1706. At the end is a signature, in a hand differing from the text, 'Nicolas Manuci.' At p. 218 we return to foolscap paper, and the narrative turns again to Aurangzeb. On p. 223 is a date, November 4, 1704, and on p. 226 we have a letter to the author from the Archbishop of Goa, dated January 22, 1705. On p. 230 is the Manifesto; on p. 231 a letter from the Bishop of Mailapur (St. Thomé). On p. 234, after the fourth line, is scrawled: 'The end of the Fourth Part of Nicolas Manucci, Venetian.' Then follow four leaves (not numbered) about Aurangzeb and Shah 'Alam; a sheet (also not numbered) with seventeen lines of writing on the upper half of it; one leaf fully written on one side, and with nine and a half lines on the other; two leaves in a different handwriting from the preceding, having three written pages and ten and a quarter lines on the fourth side, referring to Daud Khan and Thomas Pitt. Lastly, there are two large folded sheets, giving the order of battle of Shah 'Alam's and of 'Azam Shah's armies respectively. If these plans of battle accompanied the volume originally from India, and were not sent subsequently with the Fifth Part, then Codex XLIV. could not have left India until after June, 1707, the battle in question having been fought on the eighteenth of that month. For Part IV. of my translation I have used the text contained in Codex XLIV. (Zanetti), from the new paging beginning in French 'Suite de l'Histoire du Mogor,' going on to p. 235, and the remaining unnumbered leaves above referred to. I saw this and the other Codices on my visit to Venice in 1902, and, thanks to the good offices of Professor Dr. G. Coggiola, sub-librarian, who, on this and many other occasions, has been most graciously helpful, I obtained a copy of Part IV., which was made for me by Signor Gilberto Moni. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.9.3) · Pramāṇa