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.)
Since the UMDL does not have a general table of contents to all Blair and Robertson volumes, we provide them below.
Click on the particular volume to open the table of contents for that volume. The table of contents for each volume is linked to the correct pages on the UMDL website.
Please take note that we are not hosting the actual BR text itself. We would like to thank the University of Michigan for that.
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Volume I: 1493-1529
Volume II: 1521-1569
- Preface 11
- Expedition of Garcia de Loaisa, 1525-26
- Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1522-37 23
- Voyage of Alvaro de Saavedra, 1527-28
- Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1527-28 36
- Expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, 1541-43
- Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1541-48 45
- Expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, 1564-68
- Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1559-68 77
- Warrant of the Augustinian authorities in Mexico establishing a branch of their brotherhood in the Philippines 161
- Act of taking possession of Cibabao 169
- Proclamation ordering the declaration of the gold taken from the burial-places of the Indians 172
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Volume X: 1597-1599
Volume XI: 1599-1602
- Preface
- Documents of 1599
- Documents of 1600
- Documents of 1601
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Volume XII: 1601-1604
- Preface
- Documents of 1601-1602
- Documents of 1603
- Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (to be concluded) 169
- Bibliographical Data 323
Volume XIII: 1604-1605
- Preface 9
- Relacion de las Islas Felipinas (concluded) 27
- Documents of 1604
- Letters to Felipe III by Acuña 221
- Decrees regarding religious orders 246
- Grant to the Jesuit seminary in Cebu 251
- Decree regulating commerce with Nueva España 256
- Documents of 1605
- Complaints against the Chinese 271
- Letter from a Chinese official to Acuña 287
- Letters from Augustinian friars to Felipe III 292
- Letter to Felipe III by Antonio de Ribera 307
- Bibliographical Data 317
Volume XIV: 1605-1609
- Preface 9
- Documents of 1605
- Complaints against the archbishop 29
- Relations with the Chinese 38
- Letters to Felipe III by Pedro Acuña 53
- Documents of 1606
- The Dominican mission of 1606 81
- The Dutch factory at Tidore 112
- The Sangley insurrection of 1603 119
- Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III 140
- Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III 149
- The Terrenate expedition 173
- Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the California coast 182
- Chinese immigration in the Philippines 189
- Letter to Acuña by Felipe III 193
- Documents of 1607
- Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in Leyte 199
- Artillery at Manila in 1607 201
- Letter from Audencia to Felipe III, on the Confraternity of La Misericordia 208
- Trade of the Philippines with Mexico 214
- Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan 218
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- Documents of 1608-1609
- Annual receipts and expenditures of the Philippine government 243
- Decrees regarding the way-station for Philippine vessels 270
- Letters to Juan de Silva by Felipe III 278
- Expeditions to the province of Tuy 281
- Petition of a Filipino chief for redress 327
- Despatch of missionaries to the Philippines 330
- Bibliographical Data 339
Volume XV: 1609
- Preface 9
- Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (to be concluded) 25
- Bibliographical Data
- Appendix A: Expedition of Thomas Candish 291
- Appendix B: Early years of the Dutch in the East Indies 300
Volume XVI: 1609
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- Preface 11
- Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (concluded) 25
- Conqvista de las Islas Malvcas 211
- Bibliographical Data 319
- Appendix: Customs of the Pampangas in their lawsuits 321
Volume XVII: 1609-1616
- Preface 9
- Documents of 1609
- Laws regarding navigation and commerce 27
- Jesuit missions, 1608-1609 53
- Decree regulating services of Filipinos 79
- Documents of 1610
- Petition of the Recollects 85
- Dominicans request suppression of the Audiencia 89
- Relation of 1609-1610 100
- Letter to Felipe III from Juan de Silva 144
- Letter to Silva from Felipe III 151
- Documents of 1611
- Foundation of the college of Sto. Tomas of Manila 155
- Hospital at Nueva Caceres 172
- Letters to Juan de Silva from Felipe III 174
- Letters to the Dominican provincial by Felipe III 183
- Documents of 1612-1613
- Status of missions in the Philippines 189
- Trade of the Philippines 213
- Letter from the bishop of Nueva Segovia 233
- Letter to Silva by Felipe III 237
- Documents of 1616
- Recommendations regarding the archbishopric of Manila 245
- Letter to Felipe III from Ledesma 249
- Portuguese and Spanish expedition against the Dutch 251
- Bibliographical Data
- Appendix: Chronological list of governors of the Philippines, 1565-1899, and the administration of the islands at different periods
Volume XVIII: 1617-1620
- Preface 9
- Documents of 1617-1618
- Letter to Felipe III from Alcaraz 31
- Trade between Nueva Espana and the Far East 57
- Events in the Filipinas Islands 65
- Description of the Filipinas Islands 93
- Dutch factories and posts in the Orient 107
- Memorial regarding Manila hospital 112
- Letter to Felipe III from Fajardo 116
- Letters to Fajardo from Felipe III 150
- Filipinas menaced by Dutch 161
- Documents of 1619-1620
- Philippine ships and shipbuilding 169
- Royal decree regarding religious expelled from their orders 189
- Proposal to destroy Macao 194
- Relation of the events in the Filipinas Islands 204
- Letter to Felipe III from Arce 235
- Letter to Felipe III from Fajardo 247
- Grant to seminary of Santa Potenciana 282
- Reforms needed in Filipinas (to be concluded) 289
- Bibliographical Data
Volume XIX: 1620-1621
- Preface
- Documents of 1620
- Reforms needed in Filipinas (concluded) 25
- Letter to Alonso de Escovar from Fr. Otaco 35
- Decree ordering reforms in the friars' treatment of the Indians 40
- Relation of events in the Filipinas Islands, 1619-1620 42
- Compulsory service by the Indians 71
- Letter from the Audencia to Felipe III 77
- Letter to Felipe III from Fajardo 90
- Letter to Fajardo from Felipe III 173
- Memorial, y relacion para sv magestad 183
- Bibliographical Data 299
- Appendix: Buying and selling prices of Orient products 301
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