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lated, and a summary of Chap. I has been drawn up); Mr. H. 

 Beveridge (J.A.S.B., 1888, pp. 33-39); General II. Maclagan 

 and his son, Sir E D. Macla in (J.A.S.B., 1896, pp. 110- 

 113), who quote all the above references, and indicate two 

 other papers by Mr. A, Rogers, which 1 have not seen, viz., 

 * the Holy Mirror or the Gospel of Father Jerome Xavier " 

 (Asiatic Quarterly Review, July 1890), and <A Persian History 

 of Christ and St. Peter by Jerome Xavier, S.J.' read b fore 

 the Royal Asiatic Society on March 10, 1896. ' Other notices 

 are found in the Catalogues of Persian MSS. of the chief con- 

 tinental libraries. 



Mr. George Ranking' s Copy of J. Xavier' s Persian Lives of the 



Apostles. 



Mr. George Ranking, who for many years was Secretary 

 to the Board of Examiners in Calcutta, has favoured me with 

 the following valuable note (Beech Lawn, Park Town, Oxford. 

 January 10, 1914) : 



" It will, perhaps, interest you to hear that I am in posses- 

 sion of a copy of Father Jerome Xavier 's Persian Lives of the 

 Apostles. I have had it for many years. It is. unfortunately, 

 badly worm-eaten. It is 8vo. 



It came, I believe, from Akbar s own library, as it bearv 

 his seal in several places, Muhammad Akbar, Padishah-i- 

 Ghazi, 1013. This would be 1604* the year before his death. 



It contains the following lives, in this order : — 



L Life of St. Andrew (foil. I— 12 r ).— Foil. 12* and 13 r 



are blank. 



Foil. 13 V — 24 v are occupied by a discourse which 



begins ****; f JaUu \*y*Mj* ^ and 



ends 



- *VH)& * } j^> *fl toj*i©Ui«»l ^ jf tf *»*f li 



Fol. 25' is blank. 



2. Life of St. James (foil. 25* — 50* ).— Foil. 60* and 51 r 



are blank. 



Foil. 5V - 65 r contain a discourse which 



begins \&t)& ijU &£ *£&U) >JUilj> ojVj j* <^l and 

 ends — ^ Jj±s j V*t.±^ \yc ^j &*&* jjLfel <^U* 



R a Q ^ heFe WaS this P Llblishpd ? J do not find it in the Catal. of the 

 5r, S ; Publications. I may also refer to Indo-European Correspondence. 

 Calcutta, 1*70, pp. 311.422. 



