[127] The title-page of this unique book is as follows: [row of type ornaments] / Ordinationes Generales / prouinciæ Sanctissimi Rosarij / [type ornament] Philippinarum. [type ornament] / Factæ per admodum Reuerendum patrem fratrem / Ioānem de Castro, primum vicarium generalem e- / iusdem prouintiæ. De consilio, & vnanimi con / sensu omnium frattū, qui primit9 in pro / uintiam illam se contulerunt, euan / gelizandi gratia./ Sunt que semper vsque in hodiernum diem in om- / nibus eiusdem prouintiæ capitulis infalibiliter / acceptatæ, inuiolabiliter ab omnibus / fratribus obseruandæ. / Binondoc, per Ioannem de Vera chinā / Christianum. Cum licentia. 1604. / [row of type ornaments]. The volume, an octavo bound in maroon levant morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, consists of eight leaves, as follows: title-page as above, on the verso the permission signed at Manila, June 24, 1604, by Fr. Miguel Martin de San Jacinto, prior provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines; the text of the ordinances in Latin on eleven pages, with the device of the Dominican order on the verso of the last page; blank.
[128] See note 102.
[129] Medina, Adiciones y Ampliacixones, p. [5].
[130] Retana, cols. 77–8, where he gives as his source Hilario Ocio, Reseña biográfica de los religiosos de la provincia del Santisimo Rosario de Filipinas, Manila, 1891, I, p. 63. Ocio did not cite Remesal as his source, but the information, including the printer’s name as Francisco de Vera, is the same.
[131] Both title-pages are reproduced in Francisco Vindel, Manual Gráphico-Descriptivo del Bibliófilo Hispano-Americano, Madrid, 1930—34, IX, p. 22, and VII, p. 181 respectively.
The most frequently cited authorities will be referred to as follows:
ADUARTE—Diego Aduarte, Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China, Manila, 1640.
B. & R.—Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, The Philippine Islands 1493–1898, Cleveland, 1903–09.