Note 119 — Chapter VIII
Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī, active 1637 translation
This Conclusion is certainly a mistake of the copyist, as I have found in two other MSS. belonging to Colonel Davy, a further continuation of the history, but they both end in the following curious manner.
“Be it known that from this (Majlis) place, (page 284 of Petis de la Croix) to the time of the Emperor’s making his last testament, in the plains of (Khetā) Tartary, together with his Institutes, nearly forty thousand (Byts) lines are deficient or obliterated.”
“If it please God to grant me health and strength, it shall be compleated.” (Appendix No. 10.)