386 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1912. 
Tibetan language. If we except the Latin-Tibetan Dictionary 
referred to above, composed by Fr. Domenico da Fano, about 
ascribed the honour of having composed Tibetan-Italian and 
| aos Siar Dictionaries.’ The Procurator-General of the 
Capuchins, in a memoir written in 1738 and sent to the Cardi- 
nal of the Propaganda, clearly states that among other Tibetan 
works, Father Orazio ‘‘ composed a rather voluminous Tibetan- 
Sam and Ttalian-Tibetan vocabulary of about thirty-five 
thousand words. MSS. I and II, B, described above are in 
Father della pains s writing. 
e compiler of the Italian-Hindi lexicon is doubtless 
Father Giuseppe Maria de’ Bernini da Gargnano, the founder 
of the flourishing Bettiah Mission, and—however unknown to 
fame—one of the most learned Orientalists of his time. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL sal oF FATHER 
FRANCESCO ORAZIO DELLA 
The Revd. Father Francesco Orazio * della Penna de Billi 
or simply Orazio Pennabilis, officially styled in Rome Horatius 
Pennabilis, was born in 1680 in the city of Penna di Billi + in 
Monte Feretro (Italy). He started first on his Mission to 
Tibet on August 25th, 1712, with five of his brethren as 
missionaries.© They landed at Chandernagore, in the begin- 
“ of September, 1713. From here they proc oeeaige to Patna 
n Behar, where a Mission station had been opened 
1708, and where t they were welcomed by Father "Felice da 
Montecchio, then Prefect of the Mission. In December Aas, 


- para calt pe: ts, vol. VI, f - avenon 1890, p. 349. 
2 Arc ella S.C. de Prop. pide. ow regazioni Ml nig eke Tibet, 
1738 al 108. < er 112, Fol. 49, n. 6: “* Tra saeceato in dette lingue 
un bastante voluminoso ree lario di circa 35 mila v paae!: con carat- 
teri thibetani ed italiani, ed con italiani e thibetani.’’ 
rancis Horace was not his aoa _ as stated by Sir C. R. 
. Mar KHAM, Op. cit., P- lix, says bei rn at Macerata, 
in aly, in 1680; and p. 309, at Penna di Billi ‘‘ which is the district 
where he was orn. It is situated in the March of Ancona about 20 miles 
sen rata.’? Krrrn it in a different 
Seemed 20 miles W.N.W. of Urbino. So does Virginio PRINZIVALLI, 
tssionari nell” Asia, Torino, 1892, p.163. ‘‘ Paese nel cir- 
pera di Urbino 
rch. Miss. Allahabad, Mem. A. No. 6, an. 1712.—Anal. Ord., 
Giuseppe Felice da la Morro di Jesi o da Loreto, Paolo Maria 
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