During the first Jesuit mission to the Mughal Court (1580-1583), the Jesuits presented among other gifts seven[1] volumes of Plantin’s Royal Polyglot Bible to Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605). In this essay, I focus on the gift of the Plantin Polyglot because this gift is discussed most thoroughly in the letters of the Jesuits to […]
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