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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1914. 



The title in gilt letters on the back is : Jesus \ and \ His 

 People | Persian j MS. 



At the end, pasted to the cover : Serampore College I Li- 

 brary | Case G. Shelf 3. No. 6. 



Condition of the MS. : complete ; fairly well preserved ; 

 the worm-eaten passages have been carefully strengthened with 

 tissue paper; legible throughout. 



Wr 



Number of 

 Material of 



Nastallq, in a fine clear hand. 



25. 



country-made. 



Pagination: pp. 262; the pagination, marked on recto 

 and verso, being correct throughout. Catch-words at the end 

 of each verso. 



Contents : Preface 



1. St. Peter 



2. St. Paul 



3. St. Andrew 



4. St. James 



5. St. John 



6. St, Thomas 



7. St. James the Less 



8. St. Philip 



9. St. Bartholomew 

 10. St. Matthew 



11. 12. Sts. Simon & Jude 



13. St. Mathias 1 



• * 



• * 



Pages. 



1-7. 



7-57. 

 57-134. 



134-146. 



146-177. 

 177-206. 

 206-223. 

 223-231. 

 231-234. 

 234-242. 

 242-250. 

 250-257. 

 257-262. 



Titles in red ink appear from the life of St. James. In 

 the beginning of the first three lives, a line has been left blank, 

 for the title. 



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Age : No date can be found in the MS. 



Pencil-notes : 



The MS. must have been carefully studied 



marginal 



by an English scholar, as is clear from notes and 



references to the scriptural texts quoted. Leaving aside the 

 scriptural references, I remark the following pencil 'notes : (p. 

 3) Nabuchadnasar (?) ; (p. 6) Judas Iscariot ; (p. 81) Tarsus; 

 (p. 121) Galatians; (p. 146) St. James; (p. 156) France; (p. 162) 

 Spain; (p. 177) St. John; (p. 178) Domitianus, (Petrus?); (p. 

 183) Rev. ; (p. 215) Krisnu; (p. 217) Brahmana. 



My ignorance of Persian precludes my diving deeper into 

 the contents of the Lives of the Apostles. There would be little 

 utility besides. Xavier's manner and style can be studied in 

 The Life of St. Peter, and The Life of Christ published by L. de 

 Dieu, copies of which exist in the library of our Society. I 

 may refer in particular to the studies of Mr. Rehatsek (Calcutta 

 Review, Jan. 1886, p. 18), Dr C. Rieu (Catal. of the Persian 



» Acta I. 26. 



