The history of Nadir Shah, formerly called Thamas Kuli Khan, the present Emperor of Persia / To which is prefix'd a short history of the Moghol Emperors. At the end is inserted, a catalogue of about two hundred manuscripts in the Persic and other oriental languages. Collected in the East. By James Fraser.

  • Fraser, James, 1713-1754.
Date:
1742
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Credit: The history of Nadir Shah, formerly called Thamas Kuli Khan, the present Emperor of Persia / To which is prefix'd a short history of the Moghol Emperors. At the end is inserted, a catalogue of about two hundred manuscripts in the Persic and other oriental languages. Collected in the East. By James Fraser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4° (who was fix’d to no Religion) wrote a Letter to the King of Portugal, by Seyd Mazuffer, de¬ firing to fend him a Tranflation of the Scrip¬ tures into Arabic or Perfic\ and at the fame Time, one who was capable of explaining to him the Chriftian Religion. — One Geronimo Xavier, a Jefuit, and Relation to the famous St. Francis Xavier, was appointed for that Pur- pofe, who having learned the Perfic Language (as he fays) in the Space of Eight Years; with the Affiftance of Molana Abdal Set tar ben Kaf- fum Labori,, compofed this Book, and prefent- ed it to the Moghol in April 1602. The MoghoPs Letter, which is curious in its Kind, is to be found in the firft Volume of In- Jha Abul FazL This Manufcript is the Origi¬ nal one that Xavier prefented to the Moghol F 1 N 1 S.