[N 



Marsden MSS. in the British Museum 



Catalogue of Additions to the British Museum, printed in 

 1835. 1 



To come to particulars. 



chiefly 



find documents bearing on the history of the Syro-Malabar 

 Church in the seventeenth century, he did not examine in detail 

 No. 9852. The documents in it must be mostly Spanish. 

 He only remarks pertinently that R. Provincial general must 

 be a mistake for either R. Preposito general or R. Padre 

 general. 



No. 9853 is the volume with which Mr. P. was chiefly 

 concerned. It is a bound volume of about foolscap size. The back 

 is lettered as follows : Reports of the Jesuit Missions in India. 

 1601—1659 / Mus. Brit. / Presented by W. Marsden, Esq. / 9853 / 

 Plut. CXXXIII, Gf. j At the beginning of the volume there is a 

 table of contents, in Portuguese, with references to the pagination. 

 This Mr. P. copied faithfully. The pagination requires, however, 

 a word of explanation. There is a double numbering of the 

 leaves or sheets, one in pencil from 1 to 173 : another in ink. 

 But, it is to be remarked that, besides foil. 1 to 173, there are a 

 few blank ones which, though they bear old numbers in ink, are 

 not numbered in pencil. Mr. P. went through part of the volume 

 comparing the two paginations. We reproduce here the result 

 of his labour. 



Pencil Xos. Old ink Xos. Titles of Documents. 



1. None. Index dos papeis 



2 to 12. 423 to 433. 



Index to the papers which are in 

 this book. 2 

 wa da Vice P" do Sid de 601. 



[P. 423 in Index.] 



Annual [Letter] of th< Vice- Province of 

 the South [i.e., Cochin] for 1601. 



None. 434 to 436. Three blank leaves belonging to pre- 

 ceding document. 

 13 to 16 471 to 474. Anna de Maluco e Amboino de 002. 



[P. +71 in Index.] 



Annual [Letter] of the Moluccas and 



Amboyna for 1602. 



17 to 20. 475 to 478. Algiias cousas de edificao do ft Nuno 



Roiz, Pr[ que joy d< 4a Prow, e fale< > 



Marsdeniana 



1 We find that he possessed three rare Persian works c 

 Xavier, S.J. Cf. Uri. Bib. Bodl. Cod. Cat., p. 270, end Bibl. 

 p. 305. Quoted by Maclagan, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1896, p. 111. 



* We copy below the fuller headings of the documents themselves 

 rather than the entries in the Index on fol. 1.— Notice the gap between 

 436 and 471, to be partially filled in by foil. 4<>1— 470 below. Notice 

 also that the old ink numbering after fol. 482 * tarts again from 4*1 

 and runs on continuously to the end. The volume seems then to contain 

 portions of two collections. 



