The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 / 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

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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 close of the nineteenth century,

Volume XXVI, 1636

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.

Contents of Volume XXVI

1. [Preface] 9
2. [Documents of 1636]
   1. [The nuns of St. Clare at Manila. Miguel Perez, O.S.F., and others; Manila, 1635–36] 19
   2. [Relation of 1635–36. [Unsigned; Manila?]; June] 31
   3. [Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Manila, June 30] 60
   4. [Letter to Father Felipe de Cardenas. Cristobal de Lara, S.J.; Manila, July 3] 265
   5. [Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, Cavite, July 11] 269
   6. [Hospitals and hospital contributions. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, and others; Manila, July–August] 291
3. [Bibliographical Data] 315

Illustrations

1. View of city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving in Valentyn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien (Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1724), i, p. 154; from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 33
2. View of Malacca; photographic facsimile of engraving in Recueil des voiages ... de la Compagnie des Indes orientales (Amsterdam, 1725); from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 45
3. Map of Molucca Islands; photographic facsimile of map in Bellin’s Petit atlas maritime (Paris, 1764), iii, no. 68; from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 229
4. View of the city of Macao; photographic facsimile of engraving in Recueil des voiages Comp. Indes Orient. Pais-Bas (Amsterdam, 1725), v, facing p. 208; from copy in the library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 275