
1922.] Fr. A. Monserrate, S.J. and Capt. F. Wilford. 373 
redaction, in which the history of the Mission was mixed up 
with notes on the geography and natural history of India. 
That being so, Wilford’s two volumes are apparently 
the work of which Monserrate says in the MS. which I edited . 
“IT completed this Commentary at Eynan in Arabia on the 
feast of St. Anthony of Padua, in the month of June of the 
year 1590,” ie. June 13, 1590. That MS. was taken from him 
by the Turks, but was restored to him at Senaa on the feast of 
December 11, 1590, must have been made from it. That 
earlier copy was naturally the rough draught which, on his 
being sent to Ethiopia in 1588, followed him from India to 
Arabia. A summary of the diary which he kept most faithfully 
from his departure to the Moghul Court (1579) up to his re- 
turn to Goa in 1582, it now seems from Wilford’s new quota- 
tion that it comprised two volumes in which the history of the 
Mission was interspersed with disquisitions on Indian geography 
and natural history : 
Wilford must have had at his disposal a magnificent 
library, containing even a fine collection of theological books. 
I find him quoting Cardinal Bellarmine and Cornelius @ Lapide 
(As. Researches, XI, 61), which is not a little surprising for such 
a place as Benares, where he resided from 1788 to 1822 the 
year of his death. Where had he obtained his marvellous 
library from, including scarce Jesuit MSS , and rare old a 
and Greek books on travels and geograp fe . h 
After T had edited Mongolicae Legationis Commentarius, : : 
Rev. W. K. Firminger, who had discovered the MS. in the St. 
Paul’s Cathedral Library, Calcutta, suggested in B b 
& Present that, as the library mark of the MS. appeared "3 a 
of the same kind as those of a number of theological aye 7 
the St. Paul’s Cathedral Library, all these books must hie 
come to Calcutta on the same occasion. Now, "ib = one: 
the ee MS. in the St. Paul’s Segoe a sie 2 oH te 
Metcalfe Hall Collection, whence it went Bs: Games 
Library, Calcutta, and from there to the St. 
Library. 
: . . st l’s Cathedral 
To clear up this point. I paid a visit to St. Pau 
on February i 1992, and inspected, ios the help of a MS. 
catalogue made by the Rev. W. K. Ae Fd colne from 
Fort William College. I found library marks of the 
XVI. L. 127. in che Moumureate MS., a Metca e Hall ee aac 
none of the same type as I.P. 46. There was no indica ae eat 
that any of these books had belonged to Wilford oa a sora 
from the Jesuit College of Agra or of Goa. I fou os . 
MS. of Monserrate’s, and the Mongolicae Legatioms Com 
