V A S " O r- THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BIBLIOGRAPHY 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, Eco- nomic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the close of the Nineteenth Century TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINALS Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, with historical intro- duction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. With maps, portraits and other illustrations Volume LIII—Bibliography The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland, Ohio MCMVIII COPYRIGHT I908 THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS Abbreviations used in this bibliography ... 7 Introduction ....... 9 Printed books Philippine bibliographies, and important biblio- graphical lists ...... 55 Other bibliographies; catalogues of public and private libraries; and sales catalogues . 66 Books and pamphlets containing bibliographical information ...... 84 Other printed books, pamphlets, etc. (mostly published in whole or in part in The Philip- pine Islands, 1493-1898) .100 Philippine manuscripts Of The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 . 143 Manuscripts in addition to those of The Philip- pine Islands, 1493-1898 .... 238 Index ..... ... 421 ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY A. de A., Archivo de Alcala A. de I., •Archivo de Indias A. de S., Archivo General de Simancas A. del V., Archivio del Vaticano A. H. N., . Archivio-Historico-Nacional. B. M., British Museum B. N., Biblioteca Nacional; and Bibliotheque Nationale. B.P., . Boston Public Library B. R., . Biblioteca Real Caj., Cajon C. G. de T. deF., Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas. Est., . Estante. H. S. of A. > Hispanic Society of America. J. C. B., John Carter Brown. L. of C, Library of Congress Leg., . Legajo M. B. de U., Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar. P. de T., . Pardo de Tavera. R. A. de la H., Real Academia de la Historia INTRODUCTION This volume is entirely devoted to the bibliography of the Philippine Islands. In its narrowest significance, the term "Philippine bibliography" is restricted to the actual imprints of the Philippine Islands. By this term, however, we understand and include a much wider field -in addition to the above, all the printed books and pamphlets of any country dealing, in whole or in part, with the Philippine Islands; as well as all Manuscripts. Obviously, one cannot hope, much less expect, within the compass of one single volume, to cover the field as just outlined. Besides it is unnecessary to duplicate work that has been so efficiently done already. The recent bib- liographies published under the auspices of the Library of Congress, namely, those of A. P. C. Griffin and Dr. T. H. Pardo de Tavera, furnish excellent working bibliographies. The bibliographical works of Medina and Retana, although published in limited editions, are sufficiently accessible. The latest work of the latter, Aparato bibliografico, offers the most extensive array of Philippine imprints yet listed. The catalogues (especially vols, iv and v) of Pedro Vindel, the Madrid bookseller, can be used to distinct advantage, and are easily obtainable. The Adiciones of Perez and Giiemes supplement Medina's and Retana's work on the imprints of Manila and the Philippines. Finally, the bibliographical comments of James A. LeRoy, published in The Philippine Islands, I4pj-l8p8 9 Vol. LII, furnish the most comprehensive practical working list of Philippina for the later period of the Spanish regime that has yet been attempted. It is to be observed that the above bibliographies, and all Philippine bibliographies generally, while they do note or publish some few MSS., with but few exceptions (notably Llorens Asensio's Primer vuelta al mundo) are devoted to the listing of printed matter. Consequently, it has been deemed expedient, in the present work, to limit our endeavors more directly to the field of MSS. - a field that offers so rich a source for the history of the Philippines. Yet, in order that one may find within our volume complete material for a thorough bibliographical survey of the Philippines, we have IO THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS devoted the first part of our work to printed titles. We make no pretense of listing the titles usually found in bibliographies. Our first object, as seen by the first three divisions of printed titles, is to point out the sources for a complete bibliographical study of the Philippines. Those three divi- sions are: I. Philippine bibliographies, and important bibliographical lists; -this in small compass covering the entire field of imprints, so far as bibliographies have been compiled. II. Other bibliographies; cata- logues of public and private libraries; and sales catalogues; -this division showing the recognition of Philippine titles by general and special bibliog- raphers; to some extent the ownership of Philippina; and the demand and supply as demonstrated by the sales catalogues. III. Books, pam- phlets, etc., containing bibliographical lists, notes, etc.; -this division showing titles in many different lines, some of great rarity and value. It must again be noted that we do not list the actual titles, but the sources where the titles may be found. The fourth division of printed titles is the only one that can be classed under the head of pure or general bibliography. This we have entitled "Books, pamphlets, etc. (mostly published in whole or in part in The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898)" The fact that we have used them, in whole or in part, as documents for our series constitutes the first reason for their appearance. We have introduced here a very few titles that we have not used, because of their scarcity or importance for the study of the history of the Philippine Archipelago, such as, for instance, Rivadeneira's Historia of 160 1. A special feature of the last division is the location of the rarer titles. However, we have made no attempt to cite prices, for since American occupation, prices have been more or less arti- fically raised, and the present price is not a sure index of the value of the books. To many of the printed titles, we append critical and other notes; and frequent references to the various Philippine bibliographies admit of a study of the critical notes of others. In this portion of our work, as in the manuscript division, we aim rather at the practical, and our attempt is to furnish a good working bibliography, and not one calculated merely to meet the tastes of the bibliophile. We have personally examined most of the titles of the printed material listed by us, a process that has involved an immense amount of work, in- asmuch as the various books are not to be found in one collection. This has necessitated research in many libraries; and we are able to assert that no- where else have bibliographical aids to the study of the bibliography of the Philippine Islands been so extensively cited. We have made no attempt to list the many books that we have used for annotation, unless such books contain bibliographical information. Many general bibliographies and many special bibliographies contain Philippine titles. Many catalogues BIBLIOGRAPHY-INTRODUCTION * l of private libraries also contain titles. Especially is this true of libraries of Americana, which generally list some Magalhaes and Pigafetta material. While we have listed some libraries of Americana we make no effort to list all of them. It should also be noted that the ecclesiastical provinces of the Philippines extended to China and other parts of the Asiatic mainland, so that it is quite natural to expect that bibliographies of China and Japan and other parts of southern Asia should often contain Philippina. The student should also note that many collections of voyages, ecclesiastical books, etc., contain Philippine matter. Some of the titles cited contain very few items of Philippina, but some are of great importance. In the arrangement of the titles to books and pamphlets, we have adopted the strict chronological order. For a study of the early history of printing in the Philippines, and its de- velopment, the reader will find useful matter in Medina's Imprenta en Ma- nila (Santiago de Chile, 1896); and in Retana's Imprenta (Madrid, 1899), Introduction, col. 5-50. See also the rules of printing as published by the latter in vol. i of his Archivo. These rules were promulgated in Manila, February 16, 1857. ^ seems reasonably clear that the printing press was established in the Philippines as early as 1593, for in that year, Gomez Perez Dasmariiias licensed the printing of the Christian Doctrine in Taga- log and Chinese (see his letter of June 20, 1593, in our vol. ix, p. 68), although no copies of this have come down to the present day. It must be noted, however, that from the language of the letter above cited, it may be assumed that the printing press had been established before the year 1593. However, the implied reasoning of Perez and Guemes (Adiciones, pp. xxi- xxiv) following the statement of Beristain de Sousa, that the Arte y Vocabu- lario de la lengua tagala of Juan de Quinones was printed at Manila in 158 1, cannot be supported. The real history of printing in the Philippines, in which it seems that the religious orders had more to do than anyone else, has not yet been written, although it is worth careful study. MANUSCRIPTS The bibliography of MSS. forms the main part of the present volume. Important as is our citation of authorities citing Philippine titles, we believe this to be our chief contribution to Philippine bibliography. We do not hesitate to assert that we have presented more manuscript Philippine titles than all other bibliographers together.