The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 / 1493-1529 / Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Contents of Volume I
General Preface. The Editors . … 13 Historical Introduction. Edward Gaylord Bourne. … 19 Preface to Volume I … 89 Documents regarding the Line of Demarcation:
Opinions concerning the ownership of the Moluccas. Hernando Colon, Fray Tomás Duran, Sebastian Caboto, and Juan Vespucci; Badajoz April 13-15, 1524 Letters to the Spanish delegates at the Junta of Badajoz. Cárlos I of Spain; Búrgos, March 21 and April 10, 1524
Treaty of Zaragoza. Cárlos I of Spain and João III of Portugal; Zaragoza, April 29, 1529
Papal Bull, Eximiæ . Alexander VI; Rome, November 16, 1501 Life and Voyage of Fernão de Magalhães.
Bibliographical Data … 339 Appendix: Chronological Tables … 345
Illustrations
Portrait of Fernão de Magalhães; photographic reproduction from painting in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid. … Frontispiece Signature of Fernão de Magalhães; photographic facsimile, from original Ms . in Archivo General de Indias, Seville. … 273 Title-page of De Molvccis Insulis ; photographic facsimile, from copy of the first edition, at Lenox Library. … 303 General map of the Philippine Archipelago. … At end of volume