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.)

 

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Volume I: 1493-1529 Volume II: 1521-1569 Volume III: 1569-1576 Volume IV: 1576-1582 Volume V: 1582-1583 Volume VI: 1583-1588 Volume VII: 1588-1591 Volume VIII: 1591-1593 Volume IX: 1593-1597 Volume X: 1597-1599 Volume XI: 1599-1602 Volume XII: 1601-1604 Volume XIII: 1604-1605 Volume XIV: 1605-1609 Volume XV: 1609 Volume XVI: 1609 Volume XVII: 1609-1616 Volume XVIII: 1617-1620 Volume XIX: 1620-1621 Volume XX: 1621-1624 Volume XXI: 1624 Volume XXII: 1625-1629 Volume XXIII: 1629-1630 Volume XXIV: 1630-1634 Volume XXV: 1635-1636 Volume XXVI: 1636 Volume XXVII: 1636-1637 Volume XXVIII: 1637-1638 Volume XXIX: 1638-1640 Volume XXX: 1640 Volume XXXI: 1640 Volume XXXII: 1640 Volume XXXIII: 1519-1522 Volume XXXIV: 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Volume XXXV: 1640-1649 Volume XXXVI: 1649-1666 Volume XXXVII: 1669-1676 Volume XXXVIII: 1674-1683 Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 Volume XL: 1690-1691 Volume XLI: 1691-1700 Volume XLII: 1670-1700 Volume XLIII: 1670-1700 Volume XLIV: 1700-1736 Volume XLV: 1736 Volume XLVI: 1721-1739 Volume XLVII: 1728-1759 Volume XLVIII: 1751-1765 Volume XLIX: 1762-1765 Volume L: 1764-1800 Volume LI: 1801-1840 Volume LII: 1841-1898 Volume LIII: Bibliography Volume LIV: Analytical Index to the Series, A-I Volume LV: Analytical Index to the Series, J-Z

 

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
• Bibliography
• Appendix: Chronological Tables

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Volume II: 1521-1569

• Preface
• Expedition of Garcia de Loaisa, 1525-26
  • Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1522-37
• Voyage of Alvaro de Saavedra, 1527-28
  • Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1527-28
• Expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, 1541-43
  • Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1541-48
• Expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, 1564-68
  • Resume of contemporaneous documents, 1559-68
  • Warrant of the Augustinian authorities in Mexico establishing a branch of their brotherhood in the Philippines
  • Act of taking possession of Cibabao
  • Proclamation ordering the declaration of the gold taken from the burial-places of the Indians
  • Letters to Felipe II of Spain
  • Letter from the royal officials of the Filipinas to the royal Audiencia of Mexico, accompanied by a memorandum of the necessary things to be sent to the colony
  • Relation of the voyage to the Philippines
  • Copia de vna carta venida de Seuilla a Miguel Saluadar de Valencia
  • Letters to Felipe II of Spain
  • Negotations between Legazpi and Pereira regarding the Spanish settlement at Cebu
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume III: 1569-1576

• Preface
• Documents of 1569
  • Letter to Felipe II by Lavezaris
  • Letter to Felipe II by Mirandola
  • Letter to Marques de Falces
  • Relation of the Filipinas islands
  • Confirmation of Legazpi's title as governor and captain-general
• Documents of 1570
  • Letter to Felipe by Herrera
  • Relation of the voyage to Luzon
  • Act of taking possession of Luzon
  • Letter to Felipe II from Legazpi
  • Evidence regarding the Portuguese expedition against Cebu
• Documents of 1571-72
  • Relation of the discoveries of the Malucos and Philippines
  • Requisitions of supplies for the Spanish forces in the Philippines
  • Conquest of the island of Luzon
  • Foundation of the city of Manila
• Documents of 1573
  • Expenses incurred for the expedition to the Western Islands, 1569-72
  • Affairs in the Philippines after the death of Legazpi
  • Relation of the Western Islands called Filipinas
  • Letter from the viceroy of New Spain to Felipe II
• Documents of 1574
  • Letter to Felipe II from Mirandola
  • Las nuevas quescriven de las yslas del Poniente
  • Two royal decrees regarding Manila and Luzon
  • Opinion regarding tribute from the Indians
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume IV: 1576-1582

• Preface
• Documents of 1576-1578
  • Relation of the Filipinas Islands by Francisco Sande
  • Relation and Description of the Phelipinas Islands
  • Bull for erection of the diocese and cathedral church of Manila
  • Letter to Felipe II from Francisco Sande
  • Grant of a plenary indulgence to all the faithful who visit churches of the Friars Minors
• Documents of 1579-82
  • Royal decree regulating the foundation of monasteries
  • Letter to Felipe II from Sande
  • Expeditions to Borneo, Jolo, and Mindanao
  • Appointments to vacancies in Manila cathedral
  • Letter to Felipe II from Penalosa (July 17, 1581)
  • Ordinance restricting departure from the islands
  • Letter to Felipe II from Penalosa (June 15, 1582)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume V: 1582-1583

• Preface
• Documents of 1582
  • Letter to Felipe II from Penalosa
  • Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas by Miguel de Loarca
  • Letter to Felipe II from Salazar
  • Letter to the viceroy
  • Letter to Felipe II from Penalosa
  • Papal decrees regarding the Dominicans
  • Report on the offices saleable in the Philippines
• Documents of 1583
  • Complaints against Penalosa
  • Affairs in the Philippinas Islands
  • Instructions to the commissary of the Inquisition
  • Foundation of the Audiencia of Manila (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume VI: 1583-1588

• Preface
• Documents of 1583-85
  • Foundation of the Audiencia of Manila (concluded)
  • Two decrees regarding the religious
  • Annual income of the royal exchequer in the Philippines
  • Letter to Felipe II from Davalos
  • Letter to the archbishop of Mexico
  • Two letters to Felipe II from de Guzman and de Vascones
• History of the great kingdom of China
• Documents of 1586
  • Memorial to the Council by citizens of the Filipinas
  • Letter to Felipe II from Chaves
  • Letter from the Manila cabildo to Felipe II
  • Letter to Felipe II from Sedeno
  • Letter to Felipe II from Salazar
  • Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe II
  • Letter to Felipe II from Rojas
  • Letter to Felipe II from Moron
  • Measures regarding trade with China
  • Brief erecting Franciscan province of the Philippines
• Documents of 1587-88
  • Letter to Felipe II from Alvaro
  • Letter to Felipe II from de Vera
  • Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe II
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume VII: 1588-1591

• Preface
• Documents of 1588
  • Relation of the Philippine Islands by Domingo Salazar
  • Letter to Felipe II from Santiago de Vera
  • Letter to Felipe II from Domingo Salazar
• Documents of 1589
  • Excerpt from a letter from the viceroy of India
  • Letter to Felipe II from Santiago de Vera
  • Conspiracy against the Spaniards
  • Letter to Felipe II from Gaspar de Ayala
  • Instructions to Gomez Perez Dasmariñas
  • Customs of the Tagalogs (two relations)
• Documents of 1590
  • Letter from Portugal to Felipe II
  • Decree ordering a grant to Salazar
  • Letter from members of the suppressed Audiencia to Felipe II
  • The Chinese and the Parian at Manila
  • Two letters to Felipe II from Salazar
  • Decree regulating commerce
• The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume VIII: 1591-1593

• Preface
• Documents of 1591
  • The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands (concluded)
  • Liberty of the Indians in the Philippines
  • Articles of contract for the conquest of Mindanao
  • Ordinance forbidding the Indians to wear Chinese stuffs
  • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
  • The fortification of Manila
  • Investigation at Manila concerning trade with Macan
• Documents of 1592
  • Opinions of the religious communities on the war with Zambales
  • Letter of congratulation to the bishop, clergy and people of the Philippines
  • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
  • Expedition to Tuy
  • An embassy from Japan
  • Three letters to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
  • Luzon menaced by Japanese
• Documents of 1593
  • Letter to Gov. Dasmarinas
  • Two royal decrees
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume IX: 1593-1597

• Preface
• Documents of 1593
  • The second embassy to Japan
  • Two letters to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
  • Memorandum of troops required in the Philippines
  • Letter to the king of Camboja
• Documents of 1594
  • List of Philippine villages reduced by the Spaniards
  • Letter to the king of Canboja
  • Investigation of the hospital
  • Report concerning the Filipinas Islands and other papers
  • Decree of despatch of missionaries
  • Reply to the Japanese emperor's letter
  • Three letters to Felipe II
• Documents of 1595
  • Letter to Felipe II from Carbajal
  • Formation of new dioceses
  • Letter to Felipe II from Antonio Morga
  • Expedition of Camboja
  • Instructions to Figueroa
  • The Audiencia of Manila reestablished
  • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
• Documents of 1596
  • Coat-of-arms of the city of Manila
  • Decree regarding the bishopric of Nueva Segovia
  • Instructions to Gov. Tello
  • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
  • Letter to Felipe II from Antonio Morga
  • Letter to Felipe II from Francisco Tello
• Documents of 1597
  • Pacification of Mindanao
  • Memorial on navigation and conquest
  • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
• Bibliographical Data

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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)
• Bibliographic Data

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Volume XI: 1599-1602

• Preface
• Documents of 1599
  • Ordinances enacted by the Audencia of Manila (concluded)
  • The hospital for Indians at Manila
  • Letters from the royal fiscal to the king
  • Letter from the King of Borneo to Governor Tello
  • Letters to the king from Gov. Tello
  • Letters to Tello from Felipe III
• Documents of 1600
  • The Pacification of Mindanao
  • Oliver van Noordt's attack on Luzon
• Documents of 1601
  • Report to the governor, on the battle with the Dutch by Antonio Morga
  • Annual letters from the Philippine Islands
  • Letter to Felipe III by Diego Garcia, S.J.
  • Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III
  • Complaint of the cabildo of Manila against Morga
  • Letter to Felipe III by Morga
  • Grant to Jesuit School of Cebu
• Documents of 1602
  • Instructions to Pedro de Acuña
  • Two royal decrees by Felipe III
  • Pintados menaced by Mindanao pirates
  • Letters to Felipe III by Dasmariñas, et. al.
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XII: 1601-1604

• Preface
• Documents of 1601-1602
  • Expedition to the Malucas Islands
  • Principal points in regard to the trade of the Filipinas
  • Various documents relating to commerce
  • Letter to Felipe III by Morga
• Documents of 1603
  • Three Chinese Mandarins at Manila
  • Resignation of his office by the bishop of Nueva Segovia
  • Letters to Felipe III by Benavides
  • The Sangley insurrection
• Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XIII: 1604-1605

• Preface
• Relacion de las Islas Felipinas (concluded)
• Documents of 1604
  • Letters to Felipe III by Acuña
  • Decrees regarding religious orders
  • Grant to the Jesuit seminary in Cebu
  • Decree regulating commerce with Nueva España
• Documents of 1605
  • Complaints against the Chinese
  • Letter from a Chinese official to Acuña
  • Letters from Augustinian friars to Felipe III
  • Letter to Felipe III by Antonio de Ribera
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XIV: 1605-1609

• Preface
• Documents of 1605
  • Complaints against the archbishop
  • Relations with the Chinese
  • Letters to Felipe III by Pedro Acuña
• Documents of 1606
  • The Dominican mission of 1606
  • The Dutch factory at Tidore
  • The Sangley insurrection of 1603
  • Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III
  • Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III
  • The Terrenate expedition
  • Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the California coast
  • Chinese immigration in the Philippines
  • Letter to Acuña by Felipe III
• Documents of 1607
  • Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in Leyte
  • Artillery at Manila in 1607
  • Letter from Audencia to Felipe III, on the Confraternity of La Misericordia
  • Trade of the Philippines with Mexico
  • Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan
• Documents of 1608-1609
  • Annual receipts and expenditures of the Philippine government
  • Decrees regarding the way-station for Philippine vessels
  • Letters to Juan de Silva by Felipe III
  • Expeditions to the province of Tuy
  • Petition of a Filipino chief for redress
  • Despatch of missionaries to the Philippines
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XV: 1609

• Preface
• Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix A: Expedition of Thomas Candish
• Appendix B: Early years of the Dutch in the East Indies

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Volume XVI: 1609

• Preface
• Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (concluded)
• Conqvista de las Islas Malvcas
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix: Customs of the Pampangas in their lawsuits

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Volume XVII: 1609-1616

• Preface
• Documents of 1609
  • Laws regarding navigation and commerce
  • Jesuit missions, 1608-1609
  • Decree regulating services of Filipinos
• Documents of 1610
  • Petition of the Recollects
  • Dominicans request suppression of the Audiencia
  • Relation of 1609-1610
  • Letter to Felipe III from Juan de Silva
  • Letter to Silva from Felipe III
• Documents of 1611
  • Foundation of the college of Sto. Tomas of Manila
  • Hospital at Nueva Caceres
  • Letters to Juan de Silva from Felipe III
  • Letters to the Dominican provincial by Felipe III
• Documents of 1612-1613
  • Status of missions in the Philippines
  • Trade of the Philippines
  • Letter from the bishop of Nueva Segovia
  • Letter to Silva by Felipe III
• Documents of 1616
  • Recommendations regarding the archbishopric of Manila
  • Letter to Felipe III from Ledesma
  • Portuguese and Spanish expedition against the Dutch
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix: Chronological list of governors of the Philippines, 1565-1899, and the administration of the islands at different periods

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Volume XVIII: 1617-1620

• Preface
• Documents of 1617-1618
  • Letter to Felipe III from Alcaraz
  • Trade between Nueva Espana and the Far East
  • Events in the Filipinas Islands
  • Description of the Filipinas Islands
  • Dutch factories and posts in the Orient
  • Memorial regarding Manila hospital
  • Letter to Felipe III from Fajardo
  • Letters to Fajardo from Felipe III
  • Filipinas menaced by Dutch
• Documents of 1619-1620
  • Philippine ships and shipbuilding
  • Royal decree regarding religious expelled from their orders
  • Proposal to destroy Macao
  • Relation of the events in the Filipinas Islands
  • Letter to Felipe III from Arce
  • Letter to Felipe III from Fajardo
  • Grant to seminary of Santa Potenciana
  • Reforms needed in Filipinas (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XIX: 1620-1621

• Preface
• Documents of 1620
  • Reforms needed in Filipinas (concluded)
  • Letter to Alonso de Escovar from Fr. Otaco
  • Decree ordering reforms in the friars' treatment of the Indians
  • Relation of events in the Filipinas Islands, 1619-1620
  • Compulsory service by the Indians
  • Letter from the Audencia to Felipe III
  • Letter to Felipe III from Fajardo
  • Letter to Fajardo from Felipe III
• Memorial, y relacion para sv magestad
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix: Buying and selling prices of Orient products

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Volume XX: 1621-1624

• Preface
• Documents of 1621
  • News from the province of the Philippines
  • Death of Dona Catalina Zambrano
  • Letter to the king from Fajardo
  • Letter from the archbishop of Manila to the king
  • Letter to the king from Silva
  • Affairs in the Franciscan province
  • Letter to the king from Fajardo
• Documents of 1622
  • Letters to the king from Lugo
  • Letters from the archbishop of Manila to the king
  • Royal decrees regarding the religious
• Documents of 1623-1624
  • Letter to Fajardo from Felipe IV
  • Royal permission for the Dominican college in Manila
  • Expedition to the mines of the Igorrotes
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXI: 1624

• Preface 9
• Documents of 1624
  • Ecclesiastical affairs of the Philippines
  • Conflict between civil and religious authorities in Manila
  • Seminary for the Japanese missionaries
  • Extract from letter to Felipe IV
  • Royal orders regarding the religious
• Early Recollect missions in the Philippines
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXII: 1625-1629

• Preface
• Documents of 1625
  • Report to the Spanish Council of State on the appointment of a governor for the Philippines
  • Royal decree granting income to the Society of Jesus
  • Letter to the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV
  • Royal festivities at Manila
  • Letter to Felipe IV from Silva
• Documents of 1626
  • Letter to the archbishop of Manila from Felipe IV
  • Letter to Felipe IV from Silva
  • Letter from the sisters of St. Clare to Felipe IV
  • Petition for aid to the seminary of San Juan de Letran
  • Royal decrees
  • Military affairs of the islands
• Documents of 1627
  • Importance of the Philippines
  • Relation of 1626
  • Letter to Tavora from Felipe IV

• Laws regarding the Sangleys
• Decrees regarding the religious
• Decrees regarding the Chinese
• Inadvisability of a Spanish post on the island of Formosa

• Documents of 1628-1629
  • Relation of 1627-1628
  • Report on the appointments of made by the governor
  • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora
  • Economic reasons for suppressing the silk trade of China in Spain and its colonies
  • Decrees regarding the Chinese
  • Relations of 1628-29
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXIII: 1629-1630

• Preface
• Documents of 1629-1630
  • Decree regarding mission appointments in the Indias
  • Letter from Manila Dominicans to Felipe IV
  • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora
  • Relation of 1629-1630
  • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora
• History of the Augustinian order in the Filipinas Islands (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXIV: 1630-1634

• Preface
• History of the Augustinian order in the Filipinas Islands (concluded)
• Documents of 1630-1633
  • Royal letters and decrees
  • Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of Cebu
  • Royal orders, 1632-33
  • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora
  • Events in the Filipinas, 1630-32
  • Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe IV
• Documents of 1633-1634
  • Papal bull concerning missions
  • News from the Far East
  • Letters to Felipe IV from Salamanca
  • Report to the archbishop on the bakery of Manila
  • News from Felipinas, Japon, and other parts
  • Letters to Felipe IV from Salamanca
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXV: 1635-1636

• Preface
• Documents of 1635
  • Laws regarding navigation and commerce, 1611-35
  • Royal decrees, 1633-35
  • Memorial to the king, on the year 1635
  • Manila treasury accounts, 1630-35
  • Letter of consolation to the Jesuits of Pintados
  • Letter to Felipe IV from Sacramento
  • Letter from the Franciscan commissary-general of the Indias
  • Opinion of council and royal decree concerning request of Manila Jesuits for alms
  • Letter to Felipe IV from Arce
• Documents of 1636
  • Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila
  • Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas
  • Military services of Filipinos
  • Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities, I635-36
  • Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend
  • Request for Jesuit missionaries
  • Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV
  • List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXVI: 1636

• Preface
• Documents of 1636
  • The nuns of St. Clare at Manila
  • Relation of I635-36
  • Letters to Felipe IV by Corcuera
  • Letter to Father Felipe de Cardenas
  • Letter to Felipe IV by Corcuera
  • Hospitals and hospital contributions
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXVII: 1636-1637

• Preface
• Documents of 1636
  • Letter to Felipe IV by Corcuera
  • Letter to Corcuera from Felipe IV
  • Royal decrees
  • Informatory memorial addressed to the king
• Documents of 1637
  • Defeat of Moro pirates
  • Auditorship of accounts in Manila, 1595 -I637
  • Conquest of Mindanao
  • Events in Filipinas, 1636-37
  • Corcuera's triumphant entry into Manila
  • Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila
  • Letters to Felipe IV by Corcuera
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXVIII: 1637-1638

• Preface
• Documents of 1637-38
  • Remonstrance of the Augustinians against the alternativa
  • Corcuera's campaign in Jolo
• Appendix: Religious conditions in the Philippines during the Spanish regime
  • Laws regarding religious in the Philippines
  • Jesuit missions in 1656
  • The religious estate in the Philippines
  • Religious conditions of the islands
  • Ecclesiastical survey of the Philippines
  • Character and influence of the friars
  • The ecclesiastical system in the Philippines
  • Character and influence of the friars
  • The Augustinian Recollects in the Philippines
  • Present condition of the Catholic religion in Filipinas
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXIX: 1638-1640

• Preface
• Documents of 1638
  • Events in the Filipinas, 1637-38
  • Letter to Felipe IV from Corcuera
  • Letter to Felipe IV from the treasurer at Manila
  • Relation of the Filipinas Islands
  • Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao
  • Royal orders and decrees, 1638
  • Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate, 1636-37
  • Value of Corcuera's seizures in Jolo
• Documents of 1639-1640
  • Events in the Philipinas from the year 1638 to that of 1639
  • Letters to the Holy Misericordia
  • The university of Santo Tomas
  • Royal orders and decrees
  • Events in the Filipinas Islands from August, 1639 to August, 1640
  • Relation of the insurrection of the Chinese
  • Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630-40
  • Relation of the Filipinas Islands
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXX: 1640

• Preface
• Commerce between the Philippines and Nueva Espana
• Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores (to be continued)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXI: 1640

• Preface
• Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores (to be continued)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXII: 1640

• Preface
• Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores (continued)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXIII: 1519-1522

• Preface
• Primo viaggio intorno al mondo (to be concluded) (en)
• Notes
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXIV: 1519-1522; 1280-1605

• Preface 11
• Primo viaggio intorno al mondo (concluded) (en)
• Notes to Primo viaggio
• Description of the Philippines by Chao Ju-kua
• Documents of 1565-1576
  • Letter to Felipe II from Lavezaris
  • Letter to Felipe II from Mirandaola
  • Letter to Felipe II from Lavezaris
  • Letter to Felipe II from the royal officials
  • Letter to the Marquis de Falces
  • Letter to Felipe II from Diego de Herrera
  • Royal communications to and concerning Legazpi
  • Letter to the viceroy of Nueva Espana
• Documents of 1565-1576
  • Augustinian memoranda
  • Letter to the viceroy of Nueva Espana
  • Letter to Felipe II from the royal officials
  • Encomiendas assigned by Legazpi
• Documents of 1580-1605
  • Letter to the viceroy of Nueva Espana, Martin Enriquez
  • Letter to Gregory XIII
  • Bishop Salazar's council regarding slaves
  • Erection of Manila cathedral
  • Letter to Felipe II from Sedeno
  • Letter to Felipe II from Salazar
  • Relation of the Philipinas Islands
  • Letter to Felipe II from Roman
  • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas
• Documents of 1580-1605
  • Royal decree regarding hospitals for the natives
  • Augustinian affairs
  • Letter to Felipe II from the ecclessiastical cabildo
  • Letter to Felipe III from Maldonado
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXV: 1640-1649

• Preface
• Documents of 1640-1644
  • The Dominican missions, 1635-39
  • The Recollect missions, 1625-40
  • News from Filipinas, 1640-42
  • Decree regarding the Indians
  • Formosa lost to Spain
  • Letter to Corcuera from Felipe IV
• Documents of 1644-1649
  • Concessions to the Jesuits
  • Events in the Philippines, 1643-44
  • Fiscal's report of the Sangley licenses
  • Decree ordering reenforcements for the islands
  • Erection of the college of Santo Tomas into a university
  • Trade with English not desired
  • Affairs in Filipinas, 1644-47
  • Early Franciscan missions
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXVI: 1649-1666

• Preface 9
• Documents of 1649-1658
  • Royal funeral rites at Manila 23
  • Royal aids for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo 44
  • Condition of the Philippines in 1652 49
  • Jesuit missions in 1655 53
  • Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV 63
  • Two Jesuit memorials, regarding religious in the Moluccas, and the Inquisition 68
  • Jesuit protest against the Dominican university 74
  • Description of the Philipinas Islands 87
• Documents of 1660-1666
  • Recollect missions, 1646-60 109
  • Description of the Filipinas Islands 189
  • Events in Manila, 1662-63 218
  • Letter to Francisco Yzquierdo 261
  • Why the friars are not subjected to episcopal visitation 264
• Appendix: Judicial conditions in the Philippines in 1842 279
• Bibliographical Data 307

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Volume XXXVII: 1669-1676

• Preface 9
• Miscellaneous Documents, 1669-1676
  • Events in Filipinas, 1668 23
  • The Dominicans in the Philippines, 1641-69 64
  • The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1641-70 149
  • Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (to be concluded) 285
• Bibliographical Data 307

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Volume XXXVIII: 1674-1683

• Preface
• Miscellanous Documents, 1674-1683
  • Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (concluded)
  • Condition of the clergy of the Philippines
  • Prerogatives of the ex-provincials granted to Augustinian procurators from Filipinas
  • Royal patronage extended to the university of Santo Tomas
  • Letter to Carlos II from Orellana
  • Insurrection by Filipinos in the seventeenth century
  • Dampier in the Philippines (to be concluded)
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690

• Preface
• Miscellanous Documents, 1683-1690
  • Dampier in the Philippines (concluded)
  • Petition for Dominican missionaries
  • Events in Filipinas, 1686-88
  • The Pardo controversy
  • Official visitation by Valdivia
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XL: 1690-1691

• Preface
• Document of 1691
  • Events at Manila, 1690-91
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix: Ethnological description of the Filipinos
  • Native races and their customs by Francisco Colin
  • The natives of the southern islands by Francisco de Combes
  • Letter on the Filipinos by Gaspar de San Agustin
  • The native people and their customs by Juan Francisco de San Antonio

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Volume XLI: 1691-1700

• Preface
• Documents of 1691-1700
  • Extracts from Jesuit letters
  • Discovery of the Palaos Islands
  • Recollect missions in the Philippines, 1661-1712
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix: Moro pirates and their raids in the seventeenth century

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Volume XLII: 1670-1700

• Preface
• Miscellaneous Documents, 1670-1700
  • The Camacho ecclesiastical controversy
  • The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1670-1694
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume XLIII: 1670-1700

• Preface 9
• Documents of 1670-1700
  • Dominican Missions, 1670-1700 27
• Bibliographical Data 95
• Appendix: Some later ethnological features of the Philippines
  • Preliminary note 99
  • Superstititions and beliefs of the Filipinos 99
  • The people of the Philippines 113
  • Jolo and the Sulus 128
  • Letter from Father Quirico More 193
  • Letter to Father Pedro Rosell 212
  • Letters from Father Mateo Gisbert 229
  • Letter from Father Pablo Cavalleria 255
  • Extract from a letter from Father Pablo Pastellas 268
  • Letter from Father Jose Maria Clotet 288
  • Present beliefs and superstitions in Luzon 310

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Volume XLIV: 1700-1736

• Preface 11
• Documents of 1700-1730
  • Jesuit mission in the seventeenth century 27
  • Condition of the islands, 1701 120
  • Events of 1701-1715 142
  • The government and death of Bustamante 148
  • Letter by a Spanish officer 196
• Commerce of the Philippines with Nueva Espana, 1640-1736 (to be concluded) 227
• Bibliographical Data 313

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Volume XLV: 1736

• Preface 11
• Document of 1736
• Commerce of the Philippines with Nueva Espana, 1640-1736 (concluded) 29
• Bibliographical Data 89
• Appendix: Education in the Philippines
  • Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe III 97
  • The college of San Jose 101
  • The college and university of Santo Tomas 141
  • Royal college of San Felipe de Austria 170
  • Secular priests in the Philippines 182
  • Royal decree concerning native schools 184
  • College-seminary of San Felipe 187
  • College of San Juan de Letran 208
  • Law regulating marriages of students 218
  • Royal decree ordering the teaching of Spanish in native schools 221
  • Conciliar seminaries 223
  • Boys' singing school 244
  • Public instruction 246
  • Educational institutions and conditions 263
  • Privileges granted to students 279
  • Superior school of painting, sculpture, and engraving 282
  • Ateneo municipal 284
  • Educational suggestions 286
  • Public instruction 296
  • Girls' schools in Manila and the provinces 304
  • School of agriculture 315
  • Government reorganization of education in the university of Sto. Tomas 319

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Volume XLVI: 1721-1739

• Preface 13
• Documents of 1721-1739
  • Events in Filipinas, 1721-1739
• Bibliographical Data 63
• Appendix: Education in the Philippines
  • Primary instruction 67
  • Dominican educational institutions, 1896-1897 261
  • Report of religious schools, 1897 265
  • Educational institutions of the Recollects 268
  • The friar viewpoint 272
  • Education since American occupation 364

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Volume XLVII: 1728-1759

• Preface 11
• Documents of 1728-1759
  • The Santa Misericordia of Manila 23
  • Survey of the Filipinas Islands 86
  • The Order of St. John of God 161
  • Letter to the president of the India Council 230
  • Letter of a Jesuit to his brother 243
  • Commerce of the Philipinas Islands 251
• Bibliographical Data 285
• Appendix: Relation of the Zambals 289

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Volume XLVIII: 1751-1765

• Preface 13
• Documents of 1751-1762
  • Usurpation of Indian lands by friars 27
  • Moro raids repulsed by the Visayans 37
  • Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760 52
  • Later Augustinian and Dominican missions 59
  • Events in Filipins, 1739-1762 137
• Memorial of 1765 197
• Bibliographical Data 339

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Volume XLIX: 1762-1765

• Preface 11
• Documents of 1762-1765
  • Conquest of Manila by the English, 1762, and other events, 1762-1765
    • Plan of expedition for the conquest of southern Philippines 27
    • Letter to Clevland 44
    • Letter to Lord Anson 60
    • Letters to Earl of Egremont 65
    • Draper's Journal 81
    • Rojo's Journal 104
    • Anda and the English invasion 132
    • Rojo's narrative 176
    • Synopsis of letter to Carlos III 262
    • Letter to Carlos III from Anda 269
    • Letter to Gonzales from Vela 288
    • Synopsis of communications to Carlos III 296
    • Draper's defense 309
    • Letter to Rueda 333
    • Letter to Mesquida 336
  • References 343
• Bibliographical Data 347

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Volume L: 1764-1800

• Preface
• Documents of 1764-1800
  • Events in the Filipinas, 1764-1800
• Miscellaneous Documents, 1766-1771
  • Financial affairs of the islands
  • Letter from Vianna to Carlos III
  • Anda's Memorial to the Spanish government
  • Ordinances of good government
  • Instructions to the secular clergy
  • The expulsion of the Jesuits, 1768-69
  • The council of 1771
• Bibliographical Data

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Volume LI: 1801-1840

• Preface
• Documents of 1801-1840
  • Events in Filipinas, 1801-1840
  • Remarks on the Phillippine Islands, 1819-22
  • Reforms needed in Filipinas
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix
  • Representation of Filipinas in Cortes
  • List of archbishops of Manila, 1581-1898

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Volume LII: 1841-1898

• Preface
• Documents of 1841-1898
  • Internal political condition of the Philippines by Sinibaldo de Mas
  • Report of Juan Manuel de la Matta
  • The Philippines, 1860-1898: some comment and bibliographical notes
  • Events in Filipinas, 1841-1872
  • Constitution of the Liga Filipina
  • The friar memorial of 1898
• Bibliographical Data
• Appendix: Agriculture in Filipinas
• Errata and Addenda to Volumes I-LIII

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Volume LIII: Bibliography

• Abbreviations used in this bibliography
• Introduction
• Printed books
  • Philippine bibliographies, and important bibliographical lists
  • Other bibliographies; catalogues of public and private libraries; and sales catalogues
  • Books and pamphlets containing bibliographical information
  • Other printed books, pamphlets, etc. (mostly published in whole or in part in The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898)
• Philippine manuscripts
  • Of The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
  • Manuscripts in addition to those of The Philippine Islands, l493-1898
• Index

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Volume LIV: Analytical Index to the Series, A-I

• Preface to Volumes LIV and LV
• List of abbreviations used in the compilation of the index
• Analytical Index to the Series

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Volume LV: Analytical Index to the Series, J-Z

• Title Page

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