The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 / 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 close of the nineteenth century.

by Diego Aduarte

Contents of Volume XXXII

• [Preface] 9
• [Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores] (concluded). Diego Aduarte, O.P.; Manila, 1640 19
• [Bibliographical Data] 299

Illustrations

• Indiæ orientalis nec non insularum adiacentum nova descriptio (map of Indian archipelago), photographic facsimile of part of map by Nicolaus Visscher [1660?], from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 153
• Map of the East Indies; photographic facsimile, from the French edition of Mercator’s Atlas minor of 1635; from copy of original map in Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 169
• Autograph signature of Diego Aduarte, O. P.; photographic facsimile from original MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 297

Preface

In the present volume is concluded the excellent Historia of the Dominican writer Diego Aduarte, begun in Vol. XXX, and continued in XXXI; the period of mission history here covered being 1608–37. Aduarte died in 1636; but the events subsequent to 1634, with a sketch of Aduarte’s life, are added by the hand of his editor, Fray Domingo Gonçalez.