160 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {April, 1913. 
This clever artist ccntrived the matrices:of the ‘‘ Malabar ”’ 
types, cast the type, and in a short time the College issued 
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The third Provincial Council of India, held at Goa, on 
June 9, 1589, gave a new impulse to the typographical and 
editorial movement in Western India. The Archbishop and 
Primate, Frey Vicente de Fonseca, } resided over the Council, 
assisted by the Archbishop of Angamale, the Bishop of Cochin, 
his Procurator of Malacca, Fr. Alexander Valignano, Provincial 
of the Society of Jesus, together with some Fathers and several 
Prelates of other Religious Orders. 
The Council having ordained by its seventh decree the 
translation into Syriac and ‘‘ Malabar’ of some books required 
for the proper management of that Christian community, the 
Fathers of the Society of Jesus were entrusted with the task 
of carrying out the Council’s intentions 
€ most important step had already been taken, when 
Fr. George de Castro, after overcoming great difficulties, had 
established the Seminary of Vaipicota. where both these 
languages, as unlike to each other, says Fr. de Sousa, as 
English and Greek, were being taught. ‘‘Malabar’’ is the 
in the said Seminary. At the same time, they had to teac 
tin and ‘‘Kanarese.’’? This last language was spoken in 
Kanara, also in the west of the Indian peninsula. 
The professors applied themselves to the task, and not 
only translated from Latin into Syriac a commentary of the 
composed in ‘‘ Malabar’ a voluminous Prayer-book, a Cate- 
chism, and a booklet of devotional exercises for the Sundays 
and chief feasts. 
These publications and the preaching of the Fathers, 
i he Ry DE Sousa, Oriente conquistado a Jesu Christo, pt. II, cona. I 
div. IT, nos. 12, 33; Fr. Sac ist. Soc. Jesu, p. V1 V, 2. isl; 
» India Or. Christiana, p. 181; 
« Vinson : = 
p. 74. [It is difficult to see why ‘‘ Malabar’? books should have been 
printed at Goa, and not at Vaipicota or Cochin. I do not believe in the 
*‘Malabar ’’ printing of Goa], 
2 [Read ‘* Malabar.’’] 
