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 XL, 1690–1691

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

Contents of Volume XL

  1. [Preface] 9
  2. [Document of 1691]
    1. [Events at Manila, 1690–91]. [Unsigned; Manila, June, 1691.] 21
  3. [Bibliographical Data] 33
  4. Appendix: [Ethnological description of the Filipinos Native races and their customs]. Francisco Colin, S.J.; Madrid, 1663. [From his Labor evangélica.] 37
  5. [The natives of the southern islands]. Francisco Combés, S.J.; Madrid, 1667. [From his Historia de Mindanao, Ioló, etc.] 99
  6. [Letter on the Filipinos]. Gaspar de San Agustín, O.S.A.; 1720 183
  7. [The native peoples and their customs]. Juan Francisco de San Antonio, O.S.F.; Manila, 1738. [From his Crónicas.] 296

Illustrations

  1. Photographic facsimile of frontispiece to Colin’s Labor evangélica (Madrid, 1663); from the copy in possession of Edward E. Ayer, of Chicago 39
  2. Title-page of Historia de las islas de Mindanao, etc., by Francisco Combés, S.J., (Madrid, M. DC. LXVII): photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University 101
  3. Title-page of Conquistas de las islas Philipinas, by Gaspar de San Augustin; photographic facsimile from copy in Biblioteca-Museo de Ultramar, Madrid 185
  4. Autograph signature of Gaspar de San Augustin; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in collection of Eduardo Navarro, O.S.A., of the Colegio de Filipinas, Valladolid facing p. 278