The Philippine Islands is a monumental 55-volume book by Emma Blair and James Alexander Robertson. It consists of primary source documents for Philippine history translated into English.

Electronic copies of the book in text format from Vol. I to Vol. 25 are available from Project Gutenberg, while scanned copies of the pages for the whole set are available from the University of Michigan Digital Library. (The UMDL service also allows you to extract the text.)

Selected primary sources are linked from here.

Note: All of these links point to the UMDL server. We would like to acknowledge our gratitude for those great guys. :)

Volume I: 1493-1529

• General Preface
• Historical Introduction
• Preface to Volume I
• Documents regarding the Line of Demarcation
  • Papal Bulls of 1493
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
  • Note on correspondence of Jaime Ferrer regarding the Line of Demarcation
  • Compact between the Catholic Sovereigns and the King of Portugal
  • Papal Bull of 1514
  • Instructions from the King of Spain to his ambassadors
  • Letter to Juan de Zuñiga
  • Treaty of Vitoria
  • Junta of Badajoz extracts
    • Opinions concerning the ownership of Moluccas
    • Letters to the Spanish delegates at the Junta of Badajoz
  • Treaty of Zaragoza
• Papal Bull of 1501
• Life and Voyage of Magellan
  • Resume of contemporaneous documents
  • Letter of authorization to Falero and Magellan
  • Carta de el-rei de Castella para El-rei D. Manuel
  • Instructions to Juan de Cartagena
  • Carta do rei de Castella a Fernando de Magalhaes e a Ruy Falero
  • Extracto de una carta de las Indias
  • Letter to the Cardinal of Salzburg, describing Magallanes voyage to the Moluccas

Volume X: 1597-1599

• Preface
• Documents of 1597
  • Letter to Felipe II by Antonio Morga
  • Administration of the hospital at Manila
  • Letters to Felipe II
• Documents of 1598
  • Letter to Antonio Morga
  • Report of conditions in the Philippines
  • Recommendations as to reforms needed in the islands
  • Reception of the royal seal at Manila
  • Letters from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe II
  • Letters from the archbishop of Nueva Segovia to Felipe II
  • Letters to Felipe II
  • Report to the Audencia on the conduct of Tello
• Documents of 1599
  • Letter to the archbishop of Manila from Felipe III
  • Letter from the bishop of Nueva Segovia to the King
  • Letter to Joan de Ibarra
  • Missions of the religious orders
  • Military affairs in the islands
  • Letter to the king from Tello
  • Ordinances enacted by the Audencia of Manila (first part)

Volume XI: 1599-1602

• Full Table of Contents
• Letter from the King of Borneo to Governor Tello
• The Pacification of Mindanao
• Letter to the governor, on the battle with the Dutch by Antonio Morga
• Pintados menaced by Mindanao pirates

Volume XII: 1601-1604

• Full Table of Contents

Volume XIII: 1604-1605

• Full Table of Contents

Volume XIV: 1605-1609

• Full Table of Contents

Volume XV: 1609

• Full Table of Contents

Volume XVI: 1609

• Full Table of Contents

Volume XVII: 1609-1616

• Full Table of Contents
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