![‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎475] (496/508)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517141.0x000001/212.d.1._0496.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎475] (496/508)")
‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [475] (496/508)
The record is made up of 1 volume (480 pages). It was created in 1665. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &>€.
The laji Letter had this beginning :
eOw gracious is your Majefty, whofe greatnefs God prc-
ferve. As upon a Rofe in a Garden, fo are mine Eyes fixed
upon you. God maintain your Eftate^ that your Monarchy
may profper and be augmented 3 and that you may obtain all
your defires worthy the greatnels of your Renown 5 and as the
Heart is noble and upright: (b let God give you a glorious reign,
becaufe you ftrongly defend the Law of the Majefty of jfe/*r/ 5
which God made yet more flouriftiing, for that it was confirmed
by Miracles, &c.
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What followed in both thofe Letters, was to teftifie his Care
and Love towards the Englifh. Now all thefe Letters were
written in the Perfian Tongue, the Court-Language there, and
their Copies were fent to the Ambaffadour , that he might get
them ttanflated. The Originals rowled up fomewhat long,
were covered with Cloth of Gold, fealed up on both
endSj the fafhion in that Court and Country to make up Let
ters, though they be not all cloathed there in fuch a glorious
drefs.
In which Letters, hotice may b^ taken (what was obferved
before ) how relpedtively that King fpeaks of our Blejfecl Sa
viour Chrijt, And here it will not be impertinent to fpeak
fomething of thofe who pretend to enlarge the Name of jfe/#x
Chriji in thofe parts, I mean,
SECTION XXX.
Of fhejefuits, fent thither by their Snperiours to convert
People unto Chriftianity, &c.
IN that Empire all Religions are tolerated, which makes the
Tyrannical Government there more eafie to be endured.
The would fpeak well of all of them, faying, that a Man
might be happy and fafe in the profelfion of any Religion j and
therefore would fay. That the Mahometan Religion was good,
fo the Chriftian Religion good, and the reft good 3 and there-
f0r The y P r iefts ^or Minifters of any Religion find regard and
efteem amongft the people. I fhall (peak fometbing to t is rom
my own particular ufage there, then very young, whUel ri
ved in thofe parts 3 yet when I was firft there brought into th
prefence of the Mo^ol^ immediately after my arriv ^ a . e
Court, I ftanding near the Ambaffadour (for *0 ^an^here
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The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies . Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume, A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol , was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.
Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.
There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.
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