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



p jl 65v — 72» contain philosophical reflections 



translation. 



TITLE 



inning ^*~ *-> f^ %K ^^ cs 1 

 ending — *^l? Kj«*> <yal*~> ^ ^^^ <jfl 



Foil. 72 v is blank. 



3. Life of St. Peter (foil. 73 1 — 86 v ; in another hand- 



writing). 



4. Life of St. Paul (foil. 86 r , lower half, to 109 v ). Here 



the MS. ends. 



I have often intended taking this MS. in hand with a view 

 to its publication, but some other work has always prevented 

 me, and I fear 1 shall never do anything with it now, as I have 

 so little leisure and less eyesight, and part of the MS. is very 

 hard to read." 



Hindostani Translation of the Lives of the Apostles. 



The Lives of the Apostles is the only work of Xavier's 

 which I know to have been translated in another Eastern 

 language. I have lying before me a copy of a Hindostani 



_,a-i Kitab-i barah Apustal \ jis ka tar junta 



Italiyan zabdn se j Urdu zabdn mem kiyd giya. \ Bi yazat-i 

 Archbishap Sahib-i Agra k% ma'rifat Padri \_ Anglu Sahib 

 Kapuchin n*' chhapwa,% \ Sardhana \ Roman Kaiulik yatimom 

 ke chhape khdna mem. \ San 1873 ' isawl. | [The book of the 

 Twelve Apostles, translated from the Italian into Urdu, and 

 published with the permission of the Archbishop of Agra by 

 the Rev. Father Angelo of the Capuchin Order. Sardhana. 

 Printed at the Roman Catholic Orphanage a.d. 1873]. 



(0 m . 23x0'". 16); paper covers; Arabic characters; pp. 

 106 From p. 151 to 166 the first figure is a 2. 



Contents: Preface pp. i-v, followed by 1 blank page. 



1. St. Peter, pp. 1-38. 



2. St. Paul, pp. 38-73. 



3. St. Andrew, pp. 73-83. 



4. St. James, pp. 83-107. 



5. St John, pp. 108-128. 



6. St. Thomas, pp. 128-140. 



7. St. James the Less, pp. 140-143. 



8. St. Philip, pp. 143-145. 



9. St. Bartholomew, pp. 145-150. 

 10. St. Matthew, pp 251-257 [151J-[157]. 



11,12. Sts. Simon & Jude, pp. 257-262 [157J-[162J- 

 13. St. Mathias, pp 263-266 L163>[166]. 



The preface agrees in substance with the Persian original. 



