1896.] EH. D. Maclagan—Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. 113 
account of Gadagnoli’s book and of a book by Sayyid Ahmad called 
Qu} ail} Busy esd &UL,JI ety WIS, A book of divine rays in refutation 
of Christian error,’ published! in A. D. 1631 in reply, to a work written by 
a European priest: this book may be the same as the ‘Politor Speculi,’ 
but Rieu (Cat. I. 29) refers to it as an earlier work of the same author. 
It will suffice to quote here the remarkable prayer contained in the 
preface to the Atna-i-Hagq-numa:% ‘Pardon, O Lord, should I do what is 
unpleasing in Thy sight by intruding myself into the things and properties 
that belong to Thee. Men plunge into the deep ecean, there to fetch pearls 
and other precious things. Therefore, O Sea of Perfections, suffer me to 
sink deep into Thee and thence to enrich myself and my brethren, who are 
Thy servants; and by describing Thy greatness and mercies, to help them 
For, although I am unworthy to speak to Thee, Thou art worthy that all 
should endeavour to praise Thee; since Thou art possessed of infinite good- 
ness and beauty... ... O Lord my Ged, this will be fruitless, unless Thou 
assist beth me and them with Thy infinite mercy. Give unto us, O Lord, 
the key of the knowledge of Thee. Grant to our understandings the power 
of understanding Thy greatness, that Thy majesty and grace may not be to 
us an occasion of stumbling, and hence remain unblessed by Thy many 
favours. Let not that come upon us what happens to the bat, which is 
blinded by the light of the sun; and which in the midst of light remains in 
darkness. Give us enlightened and far-discerning eyes, that we may believe 
in that greatness of which Thou art, and which for our sakes Thou hast 
revealed. And that by these words and actions we may so follow Thee, that 
in paradise we may see Thy Godhead in the mirror of light, which in this 
world, we can only contemplate by faith as in a glass [darkly]. Amen.’ 
_ The above are the best known of|Xavier’s works, but the following also 
are noticed in catalogues, &c. :— 
iv. ‘ Inwes of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, composed in Persian, by 
P. Jeronimo Xavier of the C. of. J. at Agrah, at the court of the Emperor 
Jahangir in the year 1609, 8vo.’ (Bibl. Marsdeniana, p. 305 cf. Uri. Bib. Bodl. 
Cod. Cat., p. 270). 
v. ‘Psalterio de David conforme a edicad vulgata traducido polo P. 
Jeronmo Xavier da C. de J. na cidade de Agra, corte do gran Mogol 
Jahanguir (Persian Translation of the Psalms of David.) 8vo.’ (Bibl. Marsd., 
p- 305). 
vi.‘ The Guide of Kings composed in Persian, by P. Jeronimo Xavier of 
the C. of J. and addressed to the Mogol Emperor Jahangir in the year 1609. 
Sin fol, (Bibl. Marsd., p. 305). 
vii. A History af the Martyrs. (De Backer Bibl. des H'criwains de la comp. 
de Jésus, vii. 415). 
1 Lee refers to a copy in Queen’s College Library at Cambridge. 
® Cal. Rev. 1886, p. 9. Lee’s Preface to Martyw’s Controversial Tracts, p. vii. 
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