[33] The Código de las siete partidas, so called because divided into seven parts, were compiled by Alfonso the Wise, the work of compilation beginning June 23, 1256, and being concluded probably in 1265. See Dic. encic. Hisp.-Amer., xiv, pp. 982, 983. [↑]
[34] See Synopsis and extracts of the instructions given to Legazpi in our VOL. II, pp. 89–100. [↑]
[35] i.e., “The offscouring;” literally “worthless soul.” [↑]
[36] i.e., “We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now,” the last part of 1 Cor., iv, 13. [↑]
[37] This Memorial is most inadequately published in the Rosary Magazine (a Dominican periodical) for 1900, by Ambrose Colman, O.P. It is translated only in part, the translation often being faulty and giving a wrong meaning, and translation and synopsis not always being sufficiently indicated. [↑]
[38] This “notice” does not appear in the copy printed (probably from one of the fifty copies) at the press of Viuda de M. Minuesa de los Rios, Madrid. [↑]
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA
The documents in this volume are obtained from the following sources:
1. Internal condition of Philippines.—From a typewritten copy furnished by Epifanio de los Santos from the rare printed original (volume iii of Mas’s Informe) in his possession.