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 XXVIII, 1637–38

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

Contents of Volume XXVIII

  1. [Preface]. 9
  2. [Documents of 1637–38]
    1. [Remonstrance of Augustinians against the alternativa]. Juan Ramirez, O.S.A., and others; Manila, September 9, 10, 1637. 21
    2. [Corcuera’s campaign in Jolo]. Juan de Barrios, S.J.; Jolo, March–April, 1638. 41
  3. [Appendix: Religious conditions in the Philippines during the Spanish régime]
    1. [Laws regarding religious in the Philippines]. Felipe II, Felipe III, Felipe IV; 1585–1640. [From Recopilación de las leyes de Indias.] 67
    2. [Jesuit missions in 1656]. Francisco Colin; Madrid, 1663. [From his Labor evangélica.] 78
    3. [The religious estate in the Philippines]. Juan Francisco de San Antonio, O.S.F.; Manila, 1738. [From his Chronicas.] 104
    4. [Religious condition of the islands]. Juan J. Delgado, S.J.; 1751–54. [From his Historia general.] 163
    5. [Ecclesiastical survey of the Philippines]. Guillaume le Gentil; Paris, 1781. [From his Voyages dans les mers de l’Inde.] 192
    6. [Character and influence of the friars]. Sinibaldo de Mas; Madrid, 1843. [From his Informe.] 226
    7. [The ecclesiastical system in the Philippines]. Manuel Buzeta, O.S.A., and Felipe Bravo, O.S.A.; Madrid, 1850. [From their Diccionario de las Islas Filipinas.] 266
    8. [Character and influence of the friars]. Feodor Jagor; Berlin, 1873. [From his Reisen in den Philippinen.] 290
    9. [The Augustinian Recollects in the Philippines]. [From Provincia de San Nicolás de Tolentino de Agustinos descalzos (Manila, 1879).] 300
    10. [Present condition of the Catholic religion in Filipinas]. José Algué, S.J., and others; Washington, 1900. [From Archipiélago filipino.] 349
  4. [Bibliographical Data] 369

Illustrations

  1. Title-page of Labor evangélica, by Francisco Colin (Madrid, 1663); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago 79
  2. Title-page of vol. i of San. Antonio’s Chronicas de la apostolica provincia de S. Gregorio (Manila, 1738); photographic facsimile from copy in Harvard University Library 105
  3. View at Naga, Cebú; from photograph procured in Madrid 155
  4. Title-page of Le Gentil’s Voyages dans les mers de l’Inde (Paris, 1781); photographic facsimile of copy in library of Wisconsin Historical Society 193