De groote mogol en de Plantijnsche Polyglotta.
Vincent A. Smith schrijft het volgende in zijn bekend werk over Akbar:
‘On March 3. 1580 Akbar was pleased to accept from the Jesuits the gift of a magnificently bound copy of the Royal Polyglot Bible of Plantyn, printed in 1569-72 for Philip II of Spain. At a later date (1595) he gave back that work with the other European books to the fathers then at his court. The emperor treated the sacred text with the profoundest reverence, removing his turban, placing each volume on his head and kissing it devoutly’.
Cf.: pg. 175: Akbar the great Mogul by Vincent A. Smith. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press. 1919.
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