332 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1912.] 
Missions. These precious volumes were offered the same year 
to the Propaganda and placed by the Secretary of that Congre- 
gation, later Cardinal Borgia, in the Bibliotheca Collegii Urbani 
de Propaganda Fide. It is the more important to call the 
attention of Indianists to these MSS., because they are simply 
mentioned by Amaduzzi in his pre eface to the Alphabetum 
Bramhanicum, Le vaceage in 1771 (p. 17), a wane: which is now 
obsolete. The donor de oo, at the same time another 
rola, ‘infinitely more has io The manuscript, ex charta 
radicis arboree, contains a description of the deities, customs, 
amet hy etc. of that. ebniitey: Ww ritten in Nepalese, with a 
transliteration and an Italian he rarer ata by Constantin 
d’ Ascoli, and ends with a Nepalese bet 
These few notes, Gentlemen, which I could easily multiply, 
ee give aura idea of the vast amount of unpublished 
erials in session, and will afford ample born that I 
soba help ee pubkahing them. 

