VI, No. 8.] The Marsden M88. in the British Museum. 4 



[N.S.] 



Annua do Sul de 1619. P. 545. 



Madure 



1659. 

 Annual 



P. 561. 



Annua do Sul de 1613. 



P. 577. 



( c 



t t 



*< 



Annua do Sul de 1612. * P. 597. 



4 ' It will be seen from this Index what an important collec- 

 tion of papers is contained in this volume. . . . The reason 



why I referred 



ink 



of the leaves, in 



with 



parison between the latter series and the Index shows that 



1 The documents at foil. 471 [i.e., 32 — 35 Pencil Nos.] and 525 

 relate entirely to the Syro-Malabar Christians. 



Taking the above materials chronologically, we find in Vol. 9853 the 

 following documents: Annual Letters of the South [Cochin] for 1601, 

 1602, 1603, 1604, 1605, 1612, 1613, 1615, 1619; an Annual Letter 

 of the Moluccas and Amboyna, 1602; Bishop F. Roz's Relation on the 

 St. Thomas' Christians, 1602; a Relation about the Christians of the 

 Serra, 1604; Fr. Nuno Rodriguez' necrological notice, 1604; Relations 

 about the Madura Mission, 1656 — 59. 



Fr. Aug. Carayon's Biblioth. Historique de la C. dej. 9 Paris, Du- 

 rand, MDCCCLXIV", pp. 2 — 5, will show that the Annuae Litterae Soc. 

 Jesu were for many years printed regularly in a variety of places ; 1601, 

 1602 (Antverpiae, 1618); 1603, 1604, 1605 (Duaci, 1618) ; 1606, 1607, 

 1608 (Moguntiae, 1618); 1612 (read: 1608, Lugduni, 1618); 1609, 1610, 

 1611 (Dilingae?); 1612 (Lugduni, 1618); 1613, 1614 (Lugduni, 1619). 

 Then comes a break from 1615 to 1649, when the publication of the 

 Annuals was resumed from 1650 to 1654 only. The editions referred to 

 by Carayon are, of course, extremely scarce nowadays. For the matter 

 contained in them we must turn to the great histories of the Society (cf. 

 Carayon, op. ci*.,Nos. 3 — 14), e.g., to de Jouvancy's HistoriceSoc.Jes>> 

 Pars V, Tom. posterior , ab anno. ..1591 ad 1616. Romae, 1710. Unfortu- 

 nately, collections of these great histories (1540 — 1632) are very rare and 

 fetch fabulous prices. We must have recourse, then, to more accessible 

 works for comparison with the contents of the Marsden MSS. Du Jarric's 

 Troisiesme partie de V Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez 

 I ndes orientates qu 9 autres pais (1600 — 1610),Bourdeaus, 1614, into which 

 materials up to 1612 have been embodied, should be found in the greater 

 libraries. We must remark, however, that du Jarric merely translates 

 and condenses the Portuguese collection of Fr. Fernand Guerr< iro, S.J., 

 the five volumes of which comprise a decade of Indian history , from 

 1600 to 1609, inclusively. Rut, where could a complete set of Guerreiro's 

 be found ? Its exceptional rarity is seen from the fact that D. Suarez de 

 Figueroa's Spanish translation of the last volume in the series (1607, 

 1608) is quoted by Harrassowitz, Leipzig, at 960 Mks. (cf. Catal. No. 

 348, 1908), and that no copy of any of Guerreiro's Relations appeared on 

 the English book-market between 1887 and 1906. Mr. E. D. Maclagan'a 

 search for a collection of Guerreiro's Relations revealed the presence 

 at the British Museum of Fr. Antonio Colasso's Spanish translation of the 

 Relagao for 1600 and 1601 (Lisbon, 1604), and of the Portuguese Relafao 

 for 1602 and 1603 (Lisbon, 1605), at AH Souls' College Library, Oxford. 

 A reference to Vol. X of C. Sommervogel's Biblioth. de la C. de J. (sub : 

 Hist.Comp de J., G6neralit&, and, Missions des Indes Orient.) may hel| 

 to show what other papers in the Marsden MSS. have appeared in print. 



