![‘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’ [‎476] (497/508)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517141.0x000001/212.d.1._0497.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’ [‎476] (497/508)")
‘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’ [476] (497/508)
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,
Gozulcan, hefent one of his Grandees toipe, to let me know
that the King bad me welcome thither, th^tlfhould have a free
accefs to him when ever I pleafed ^ and if I would afk him any
thing, he would give it me ( though I never did afk, nor he
give ) and very many times afterward when, (waiting upon
my Lord Ambafladour) I appeared before him. He would
ftill (hew tokens of Civility and Refped unto me > and I never
went abroad amongft that people, but thofe that met me, upon
thiscomideratioa* that I was p. Padre (for fotheycall'dmej a
Father or Minjfter, they would manifeft in their Behaviour
tpwards me, much efteem unto me. But for the Jefuits
there 5
There was one of that Order, in Goa (a City of the Portugah
lying ijn the (kirts of Ivdia ) of very much Fame and Renown
called Jeronymo Xaviere , fent for by Achabar-sha , the late
Kings Father, in the year 1596. to argue before him the Do-
ftrine of Chriftianity : there being alwayes prefent a MooUa y
or Mahometan Prieft 5 and a Third Pf rfon, whq followed no
precile Rule, but what the Mght of Natur? meerly led him to 5
and thefe twq were to obtain what they could againft his
Reafoning. . Z
The Jeiuit in the Mogol s own Language (which was a great
advantage to be^an to fpeak fir ft of the Creation, and
then of the FaJl pf Man: m whkh the Mahometans agree with ui.
Then he lai^ down divers grounds, to bottom his reafomngs
on.
That Man by Creation was made a mpft Excellent Creature,
indued with the Light of Reafbn, which no other fublunary
Creature befides himfelf had 5 then.
That Man thus endued, muft havefomc Rule or Law to walk
by, which he could not prefcribe unto himfelf, and therefore
it muft be given him from above.
That this Law was firft given unto Man from God, and after
ward confirmed by Prophets (ent into the World, in divers Ages,
from God.
That this^ Law thus delivered muft needs be one Law, in all
things agreeing in it felf. And fo did not the Law of Mahomet.
That this Law thus delivered was moft conformable to right
ion 5 And fo was not the Law of Mahomet,
That Man fall'n from God by fin, was not able to recover
himfelf from that Fall 5 and therefore it was neceflary that there
fnould be one, more than a Man, to do it for him, and that that
One <;ould not be
. That this One was Chrift 3 God as well as Man 5 God to fa-
tisfie ( the Mahometans themfelves confefling that Chrift was
the breath of God) 3 and Man to fuffer death as he did.
That Chrift the Son of God coming into the World, about
that great Work of fatisfying Gods anger againft Man for fin 5
st was neceffary that he ftiould live a poor and laborious life
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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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