Some notes on the bibliography of the Philippines
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Bulletin
of
The Free Library
of Philadelphia

Number 4

Some Notes on the
Bibliography of the
Philippines

By
Rev. Thomas Cooke Middleton, D.D., O.S.A.

December, 1900

Copyright, 1900,
by
The Free Library of Philadelphia.

Press of
Edward Stern & Co., Inc.
Philadelphia

Preface.

So many inquiries have been made in the Free Library of Philadelphia for information concerning the history and literature of the Philippines, that an earnest effort was made some time ago to gather together books bearing on these subjects. The fact that a short catalogue of Philippine literature, prepared by the bibliographer, W. E. Retana, comprises as many as three thousand separate works, is a matter known to comparatively few persons, and it was therefore with considerable interest that the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia obtained the promise of the Rev. Thomas Cooke Middleton that he would read a paper upon the bibliography of the Philippines before the Club. This Bulletin is a copy of that paper, as read in substance, and it would have been published several months since but for the unfortunate loss of the manuscript in the office of the newspaper to which the author had confided it. In answer to the urgent requests of the members of the Philobiblon Club, Father Middleton very kindly re-wrote it and consented that it should be printed by the Free Library of Philadelphia for the use of the students and patrons of the Library. An evil fate, however, seemed to pursue the manuscript, and within four days after it had been completed for the second time it perished in the great fire which destroyed the printing house of J. B. Lippincott Co. Once more the author took courage, and again wrote out the paper, and these facts are recorded both as a matter of interest, and to explain why this Bulletin has been so long delayed.

A collection of books on the subject of the Philippines is being gradually accumulated, and it seems desirable both to furnish the readers in the Library with information upon the subject, and also to take an opportunity to counteract the popular misapprehension as to what has been done by the residents of the Philippines in the way of literature.

Since the collection of works on this subject was commenced the Free Library has prepared and mimeographed from time to time for the use of its readers “Finding Lists” of the books on the shelves relating to the Philippine Islands. The latest of these lists, prepared May 4, 1900, shows that fifty-four volumes have been collected and also gives references to nearly six hundred magazine articles in the Library.

Possibly one of the most interesting books received in the Library is the Flora de Filipinas, consisting of four folio volumes of text (printed in Spanish and Latin on the same page) and two of colored lithographed plates. It was published at Manila 1877–1883 for the friars of St. Augustine under the direction of H. Ex. the late Sebastiano Vidal y Soler, assisted scientifically by the able botanists, the Rev. Fathers Fr. Andres Naves and Fr. Celestino Fernández Villar, both of the Augustinian order of friars. It was composed from manuscripts of the late Father Blanco of the same order. The plates were drawn and colored from nature by native artists, and sent to Barcelona where they were lithographed, and after six hundred copies were printed off, the stones were destroyed. As will be noticed, in many cases the specimens are given both in fruit and flower, necessitating in most instances a gathering of the specimens at distinct seasons of the year.

The book was published as a serial work, two or three parts with four plates each (with corresponding descriptions) appearing monthly. There were several stoppages during the printing of the work, caused by a large fire at one time and an earthquake at another, from both of which the printing establishment at which the book was being published suffered. In this manner the time occupied in the publication was prolonged.

The original editor was Sr. Domingo Vidal, who unfortunately, after only two or three parts of the work had been given out, was obliged to leave the Islands on account of poor health. Several months later he died and his brother, who had assumed the editorship, upon his departure from Manila, continued the work until it was finished.

The Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia desire to express their thanks to the Rev. Dr. Middleton for the contribution to bibliography which follows. A short index has been added, which it is believed will fit the paper for general use. Many thanks are due to Mr. John Ashhurst for his assistance in this tedious part of the Bulletin.

John Thomson.

Introductory.

The following pages, embodying a survey (on a broad scale) of the chief characteristics of Philippine intellectual energy, in its various lines of art, science, letters, seem an objective worthy of the American scholar, who, to his own large group of aboriginal tongues at home, has now to add to his field of study a similarly far-reaching family of the many-toned dialects of Malaysia,—twenty-seven idioms at least in number,—according to Retana’s tabulation, whereof I give a list drawn from his latest bibliography of the Philippines,1 where, enumerating the various works published in the several dialects in use in that archipelago, he has summarized them in the following table:

| Bisaya, or Visaya, generic name for Titles.
1. | Cebuano, Isle of Cebú | 352
2. | Panayano, Hiligayno and Harayo, Isle of Panay
3. | Leyte, or Leite, and Sámar Isles
4. | Tagalo, Isle of Luzon | 230
5. | Ilocano, ibid. | 143
6. | Bícol, or Vícol, ibid. | 61
7. | Pangasinán, ibid. | 24
8. | Pampango, ibid. | 22
9. | Ibanag, ibid. | 15
10. | Moro-Maguindánao | 8
11. | Cuyono | 7
12. | Tiruray | 6
13. | Bagobo | 3
14. | Aeta, or Negrito, Isle of Negros | 2
15. | Gaddan, Isle of Luzon | 2
16. | Isinay, ibid. | 2
17. | Joloano | 2
18. | Manobo, Isle of Mindanao | 2
19. | Tagbanúa, Isle of Paragua | 2
20. | Tino, or Zambale, Isle of Luzon | 2
21. | Batanes, or Vatanes, Isle (of same name) | 1
22. | Bilaan | 1
23. | Bisaya-montés, Isle of Mindanao | 1
24. | Calamiano | 1
25. | Egongot, or Ilongote, Isle of Luzon | 1
26. | Samal | 1
27. | Tagacaolo | 1

This bibliography, which we rightly may term wealthy in its two thousand six hundred and ninety-seven titles2 of numbered pieces of literature, besides being based largely on the author’s own choice collection of Philippina, cites also fourteen other bibliographies of that archipelago.3

In his own list of Philippine languages, or branch-tongues, of this quarter of Malaysia, in all (as he gives them) thirty-seven in number, some are mentioned, that, except in a broad sense, will not easily be recognized as members of the distinctively Philippine family; such as Sanscrit, Chinese, Japanese, Javanese, Nahuatl of Central America, along with Kanaka or Ponapé,4 Chamorro and Malgacho, or Malagasy, as we more familiarly style it, three dialects spoken in lands outside of the Philippine zone,—of Yap, or Guap, in the eastern Carolines, the Marianas, or Ladrones, and Madagascar respectively.

Wherefore, subtracting these nine foreign localized idiom-groups along with Malay (presumably ancestral tongue of the Philippines, as of other western Polynesian languages), though herein many scholars hold that Aeta, or Papuan, is mother, I have reduced the idioms peculiar (in large measure) to that archipelago itself to the number (given ahead)—twenty-seven.

On this question of race and idiom unity Zúñiga, whom I cite frequently in this sketch, says that the vocabularies of New Zealand, New Holland, New Guinea, and part of New Hebrides (gathered by Captain Cook) were all easily understood by him through his familiarity with Philippine dialects; that, moreover, from his knowledge of the racial and linguistic characteristics of nearly all South Sea islanders, especially of the peoples from Madagascar to Easter Island, including (he distinctly declares) the natives of the Friendly, or Society Isles, of the Sandwich and Marquesas groups, he was of opinion that aboriginal stock of all, in tongue and blood, including even the natives of Central America, was Aeta, or Papuan, otherwise styled (in the Philippines) Negrito.5 As far back as the early part of the seventeenth century this same question of race and language identity of the Philippine people was treated by the Jesuit Chirino, of whom we shall say more further on; then later by another Jesuit scholar, at one time provincial superior of his society in the Philippines, Francisco Colín, in his Lavor evangelica, (Madrid, 1663); and by Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro, a linguist of deserved eminence in the world of letters, formerly Jesuit. See his Catalogo (in six quarto vols., Madrid, 1800–1805), and you will learn very much about many strange things, among others, that the theory maintained by the English Wallace, the German Blumentritt, and later ethnologists, as to the identity of these Polynesians—Papuans and Malays—perhaps the only one now held by scholars—is venerably old, by two centuries and more. But really, in view of the apparently irreconcilable opinions of linguists on this topic, further discussion of it seems unprofitable.

As concerns the Philippines themselves, neither have their isles all been numbered, nor their sub-races and branch-idioms classified, except in what we may style a generic scheme.

Back now to our bibliographer. No study in mere humanities, it seems, could be more fascinating to your all-round scholar, and more fruitful especially to anthropologist, than with the guidance of Retana and other like gifted students of Philippina, to enlarge somewhat on this bibliographical theme, since in letters chiefly do men of upright mind find equipment for meditation of spirit, main source of all healthful, sober, intellectual recreation and work.

Our list of Philippina, as you will notice, although given merely in outline, embraces in its sweep across the literary horizon of that quarter of Malaysia many works of recognized merit in the several lines of intellectual energy—of history, archæology, ethnology, philology and natural philosophy; books, all of them, which, if perchance not masterpieces according to the higher standard of Caucasian scholarship, will yet be acknowledged of much interest, nay, of great value in the inspiration and development of scientific thought.

In this bibliographical skeleton, then, I shall point out those sources of information anent the Philippine Islands, wherein the scholar can best find a general description or history of them, the most trustworthy works on their very varied and multiform language, as well as other topics cognate with these. Hence these sub-sections into which my paper is split: (1) Works of General Information; (2) Authorities on Philippine Dialects; (3) Some Literary Curios among Philippina; (4) Philippine Presses; (5) Introduction of Printing into the Philippines.

First, I name the chief works of reference,6 of the highest, most authoritative character, bearing on the distinctive peculiarities of the Philippines,—works that will be recognized as serviceable to the general reader and scholar, to him that seeks to learn of the history of that archipelago, of its antiquities, and characteristics of the many tribes that people it,—of their customs, religious beliefs, superstitions and rites; of the fauna, flora, geology of those islands; in brief, of whatever refers to this part of Malaysia. For no matter how much the Malay,—Javan, Bornese, Sumatran, as well as Philippinian—has been civilized—Christianized, so far (as must be conceded) he has not become Caucasian in mind, nor will, nor spirit. He remains as he was, (nor any wonder), wholly Asiatic. Albeit, for three centuries and upwards, taught, ruled, elevated (at times, too, disedified) by white men, the Malay, or brown man, is not, perhaps never will be, employed by Europeans, save in very limited sphere, in wholly subordinate trusts, whether in commerce, trade, or whatsoever other field of human activity.

1 See his Catálogo Abreviado de la Biblioteca Filipina (Madrid, 1898), pp. xxix–xxxi.

2 These figures are given by Retana—a faulty enumeration, however, in that they fail to include all the titles in his work. Thus (p. 338), instead of a series-number we read four ciphers, to be met with elsewhere the same as his bis mark (pp. 59, 90, 118, 565). Again Méntrida’s Arte and Diccionario of 1637, mentioned twice (Nos. 100, 173) have not been entered by Retana in his lists; neither has the first edition (Tayabas, 1703,) of Santos’ Tagal dictionary, (pp. 31, 32.). In reality then, instead of only 2697 titles in his Biblioteca, one should count, I venture to guess, at least some twenty or thirty more than are given.

3 Biblioteca, vii–xi.

4 Singularly varied are the names given by writers to this dialect of Yap, as Bonabe, Bonibet, Bornabi, Funopet, Panapee, Ponapé, Puynipet, while to the French the island itself is known as Ascension. (Art. “Caroline Islands,” Encycl. Brit.)

5 Read, however, his observations thereon in full in his Estadismo, i, 426–429. The same opinion as to Aeta being mother-tongue in the Philippines is pronounced also by Buzeta, ii, 49.

6 Throughout this sketch, unless otherwise noted, I follow only Spanish authorities.

I.

Works of General Information.

But let us on to our list of works of general reading. Sifting the treasure-stores of authorities named in Retana and others, I find the following books of most value and service, whereof, though some few among them, and for that matter the highest in their respective classes, are no longer in print, yet these very masterpieces, if not obtainable by purchase, like many another priceless blessing, still are worth knowing by title to book-lover and scholar, who, if perchance he cannot have these repertories of human lore on his shelves, will know at least by what title to seek them on others.

Of the Philippines and their neighboring archipelagos these works rank of the highest worth:

The history of Mindanao, Jolo, and their adjacent islands (Madrid, 1667), written by the Jesuit, Francisco Combés—the most ancient detailed account of that region of Polynesia, known as the Archipelago del Sur, and invaluable beyond other guides to the ethnologist especially.

Then an account of the establishment of Christianity in the Marianas Islands (Madrid, 1670?) similarly the oldest and at the same time most reliable history of these Ladrones, or robber, islands, so styled by early Spanish voyagers because of the thievish proclivities of the natives, every one of them in theory and practice an annexationist and protectionist to the back-bone, till the Jesuit missionary and scholar, Diego Luis de Sanvitores, author of this history, rechristened them Marianas, in honor (according to some chroniclers) of Doña Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain, in loving and tenderest-hearted homage (according to others) of the Blessed Virgin, whose rosary that savant was wont to recite every day.1

Then the story of the various religious missions in the Philippines entrusted to members of his Society by another Jesuit, Pedro Murillo Velarde (Manila, 1749), a rare and valuable work, whereof an accompanying chart, drawn in 1734, should, strictly speaking, be styled the earliest detailed topographical map of the Philippines. From the pen of the same scholar issued, too, an historical geography of that archipelago (Madrid, 1752), of much worth, the same as his chart, for its scientific details—albeit little known, it seems, to Philippinologists.

Then we have the rare and deeply interesting history (Madrid, 1756) of some tribes in Luzon, hardest to convert—the Igorrotes, Tinguianes, Apayaos and Adanes, four races of Indians in the hill-country of Ilocos and Pangasinán, in spiritual charge of the Augustinians, a member of which brotherhood, Manuel Carillo, is the author.

Another book, that because of its manifold literary merit, of historical accuracy and statistical detail, is styled by Retana “an historical work par excellence,” is the general history of the Philippines (Sampaloc, 1788–1792), by the Recoleto missionary, Juan de la Concepción, copious source of varied and valuable information, wherein—albeit somewhat prolix in style, at times, too, rather digressive—the author may fairly be said to be without rival.

Then comes the descriptive and historical account of the Marianas Islands (Madrid, 1875), by Felipe La Corte y Ruano Calderón, the best work on that little-known archipelago, and a rich source of general information anent these Malaysian islands.

On the botany of the Philippines, a monumental work of the highest character is the Philippine Flora (classified according to the sexual system of Linnæus), by the Augustinian, Manuel Blanco, printed at Manila, first in 1837, again in 1845, and finally republished a third time in 1877–1883, in superb style, in four folio volumes of text in Spanish and Latin, embellished with two volumes of colored lithographed plates descriptive of the plants, flowers and fruits of those islands. One of the co-laborers on the third edition of this Flora was Ignacio Mercado, a Philippine botanist himself, and professed member of the Augustinian brotherhood.

The same Father Blanco also translated into Tagal the French physician Tissot’s work on medicine, enriched with his own life-long observations on Philippine plant-lore.

Along with Blanco’s Flora should be named the catalogue of fauna of the Philippines (Manila, 1895–1896), by the Dominican zoologist, Casto de Elera, an expert in that line of biological science,—a work in folio (in three volumes) of two thousand three hundred pages and upwards, termed by Retana not only a monumental work—easily to be believed—but one unique of its character.

The geology of the islands (Madrid, 1840?), treated by Isidro Sainz de Baranda, government inspector of mines, besides being well worth reading, is the earliest study on this topic made on strictly scientific lines.

Two works, sole representatives of their kind, are named by Retana as of singular value to the physician not only, but to ethnologist and scholar especially,—one the Embriologia Sagrada (Manila, 1856), by the Recoleto missionary Gregorio Sanz, written in aid of his fellow caretakers of souls, whose services in behalf of suffering humanity in out-of-the-way districts were often called upon by the natives, whose practice of the curing art, based on their own traditional formulas, especially in cases of child-bearing, was, despite the efforts of the missionary to uproot their unnatural and utterly heathen disregard for human life, attended too often with destruction of progeny and mother.

The other repository of singular and very curious information is a treatise in Visaya-Cebuano and Spanish by another Recoleto evangelist, Manuel Vilches (Manila, 1877), written similarly in benefit of Indian sick, the Manual, that is, of the Visaya Physician, or native doctor—mediquillo, as in the Philippines these votaries of Hippocrates are styled, a work praised by Retana as replete with Indian plant-lore.

The richest and most valuable collection of statistics relating to the Philippines, so at least acknowledged by experts, more reliable too than the Spanish government’s own work, is the Estado general of all the pueblos—Christianized settlements—in the islands, drawn up by the Dominican archbishop of Manila, Pedro Payo (Manila, 1886), whereof the data were gathered by his vicars-forane and parochial-cures throughout the archipelago. While the most artistic map of Luzon, so styled by Retana, is the chart of that island (Madrid, 1883), published in four sheets by Enrique D’Almonte y Muriel.

With mention of two other authors I close this section of Philippina,—one the history of the islands, or rather a detailed account of his travels therein, by the Augustinian scholar and voyager Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga (Sampaloc, 1803), a work known by its Spanish title as Estadismo de las Filipinas o mis viajes, which, translated into English by John Maver, was published in London in 1814; and lately edited by Retana himself at Madrid in 1893.

As will be easily apparent to even the most cursory reader, Zúñiga’s travels, critical throughout in spirit, display on well nigh every page the results of keen observation of affairs during his wanderings, combined moreover with sober reflections on the character and condition of the various races of people of the chief Philippine islands.

In acknowledgment of its scientific worth, Retana has enriched Zúñiga’s history (in the edition just noted) with twelve scholarly appendices replete with copious erudition, among other topics on the ethnography and geography of the islands; on animals, plants, and minerals. In these appendices, too, will be found copious bibliographies on special topics, as trade, commerce, the não de Acapulco, taxation, finance, and the like.

And,—I feel that attention shall be called thereto, first because the subject itself is deeply interesting to lovers especially of folk-lore, then again, because commonly much misunderstood,—in one of his appendices to Zúñiga (ii *66–*83), Retana has reproduced some twenty-five pages of a Pangasinán Charm Book, covered with strange words—jumbles, most of them, of mutilated Church Latin, with crosses and queer-looking symbols. This charm-book in MS. (as are all its fellows), whereof copies without count are circulated among the lowest, most superstitious classes of islanders—Indians and meztizos, that is, Spaniard, or Chinese, mixed with native,—is wont to be worn around the neck, in the disguise of a Catholic scapular, as safeguard to the wearer against perils of any kind, chiefly the knife, or bullet, of his enemy. Again,—I am quoting Retana, who gives his own personal experiences in Luzon,—so jealously and closely (he says) do these Indian charm-bearers guard their secret heathenish practice from their missionaries, who, for ages, albeit not always with good result, have been striving to detach their wards from such superstitious usages, that the same scholar and curio-hunter, despite his keenest research in Luzon, has never been able to catch even a glimpse but of three of these pagan scapularies, the ones shown to him by a Dominican missionary, Father Casimiro Lafuente, for many years cure at the pueblo of Santa Barbara, in Pangasinán, now (1893) a member of the house of his brotherhood at Avila, in Spain. Moreover, it appears, from the same Retana, that Father Lafuente, so many years resident in the islands, had never succeeded in unearthing other scapularies than these self-same three.

Many other forms of heathenism, some of them not even yet wholly banned from the Philippines, the reader will find described in another of Retana’s works—de Aniterías (Madrid, 1894).

Zúñiga also tells all worth knowing of the abominable rites practised among Luzonians,—of their Nonos, Duendes, the Pag-Papasipin, Tigbalag, Patianac, Bongsol, and Bilao. Much of what he says regarding the attachment of these peoples to unclean and impious ceremonies he has gathered from that rarest of books—one copy only believed to be extant, at the colonial museum of the Augustinians at Valladolid (in Spain), the Práctica (Manila, 1731), of Father Tomás Ortiz, one-time missionary of that brotherhood in China, then for thirty years resident in Luzon, where he died in 1742.

Better, however, consult Zúñiga himself,2 and the notes thereon by Retana, who singularly has failed to insert Ortiz’ Práctica in his Biblioteca, and you will find much of interest;—among other things about tattooing, common practice at one time among all Polynesians, the same as among our own aborigines, until taught more refined ways by Christian missionaries; and about wakes too,—solemn ceremonials of grief, with banquetting and chants—on the occasion of the death of kindred.3

Anent these and similar breaches of the Divine commands against Satanism, it is surprising (I would observe) to reflect how many forms of spirit and idol-worship4 are (to their degradation be it said) common with Malaysian and Caucasian. (See in our own periodicals, published presumably by bright-minded, clean-souled Christian philosophers, yes, see in these oracles of our fireside, advertisements of magicians, diviners, fortune-tellers, charm-workers, not to speak of other law breakers, whose mere self-interest seems to have dulled all true intellective sense.)

The last authority on general topics I name here as invaluable as well as deeply interesting to the scholar is the Encyclopedia (in two volumes) of the Augustinian travelers, Manuel Buzeta and Felipe Bravo (Madrid, 1851)—a work replete with most varied information along with statistics, now, of course, out of date, on the ethnology, geography, topography, dialects, customs and rites of the aborigines in the Philippine archipelago.

Barring, as is only fair, any eulogy on the antiquated features of this Encyclopedia, which yet will be recognized of much service to the historian, the writer himself, who herein is supported among others by Retana, would style this monument of varied scholarship and research a masterpiece of all-round learning; within its lines an indispensable guide to every Philippinologist.

Such, then, are the books most trustworthy and serviceable in their respective fields of history, antiquities, ethnology, and other sciences relating to Philippina.

Before leaving this subject to dwell on Philippinian linguistics, I venture a brief digression on a class of works of general historic character—repertories of all ethnic science, little known, however, albeit to their serious disadvantage, to most students, and prized only by your true-hearted book-lover, who has sense to value what he reads for its own worth mainly, not because stamped with popular approval.

These are annals of the religious brotherhoods in the East, to be recognized in Retana and other catalogues under the various titles of chronicles—sometimes as Conquistas, a by no means unfamiliar term—stories, that is, of the conquest of heathendom, woven oftentimes, no doubt, as recreation by the missionary amid his cares; sometimes as relief from thoughts of his far-away native land—journals, as it were, drawn up by the wanderer, who, besides being traveler, usually was a more or less keen-eyed observer, at home wherever Providence sent him; where, too, he studied (for self-interest was also at stake) whatever regarded the natives in his care—the lands they dwelt in, the skies above them, the waters around them.

Scholars such as these on life-long service in their foreign homes were wont to make themselves conversant with every characteristic of the natives—with the language first of all, then the legends, poetry, chants; with the traditions and customs of the people, the industries and sports of their dusky-hued friends and brothers.

As a rule, these plain, simply-told recitals of matters of fact, chronicle among other curios of literature, all kinds of even the most out-of-the-way learning anent the races of men; of plants and animals, of the various oftentimes most singular phenomena of air, earth, and water—subjects, all of them, of eagerest quest on the part of scientist, ethnologist, linguist, philosopher, naturalist.

These stories, albeit at times verbose, at others digressive, will be acknowledged by the honest-minded critic as rich, indeed, in many-sided lore, enough to repay amply whatever time or trouble you have spent in their reading.

With the exception of one collection of missionary annals—the Relations of the Jesuits in North America; now being edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin—I know of no exact counterpart in the field of English literature to these delightful narratives of old-time missionary travelers, Maver’s translation of Zúñiga’s Estadismo, in 1814, being not only out of print, but I suppose unpurchasable.

With the aid of such monuments as these—all original records of old-time conquistadores and their fellow-missionaries in the Americas, it has resulted (to the delight and blessing of students) that the cyclopedias of Americana (thirty nine volumes of them), wherein you will find enshrined whatever is worthy of preservation in the various chequered cycles of aboriginal and Spanish polity and art, massed together by the Western historian Bancroft, are veritably invaluable to the antiquarian, besides being wholesome and refreshing food for men of intellective genius, as therein, along with abundant matter for romance and epic, you will see unraveled and laid bare many a drama of life.

1 See the Augustinian Zúñiga’s Estadismo ii, *395, to which further reference will be made.

2 Estadismo, i, 426–429.

3 For these usages, see Zúñiga, Estadismo, i, 533–534.

4 Various heathen rites, practised by these islanders, are described in Buzeta (i, 60, etc.), as well as names of deities, and other enormities of man’s distortion of truth.

II.

Authorities on Philippine Dialects.

Now a few words anent the chief authorities on Philippine linguistics—treatises, namely, bearing on the various dialects employed in that archipelago, twenty-seven in number, as observed ahead, all, however, akin in their common stock—Malay, of which these idioms, or patois, are daughters, yet with countless, sharply-marked differences between one another.

A working knowledge of the many fashions of speech so much needed as obvious, nay, indispensable to traveler or missionary, will be gained most quickly and thoroughly, it should be premised, from books of two-fold character,—(1) namely, from grammars and dictionaries of the several idioms, based on scientific rules of philology; then (2) from devotional works—books of Christian piety, very numerous in the Philippines, as are religious manuals, prayer-, sermon-, and confession-books, whereof titles abound in Retana, all pretty much from the busy pen of missionaries themselves, to whose zeal and ability in the instruction of their brown and black many-tongued wards is due largely, nay, wholly, whatever of humanizing, Christian character is found in Malaysia, as in fact is true also in other countries now civilized and enlightened, albeit once barbarian.

In his latest bibliography,1 where the number of published works in each of the twenty-seven dialects of the Philippines is set down by Retana, you will observe from a study of his lists, that though in many dialects there are no grammars so entitled, or other scientific aids to learning a given idiom, yet there are many works of religious cast printed therein,—hand-books of practical religion, which you will find useful beyond measure to linguists. Since from these prayer-books, wherein are set down plainly the simplest and commonest rules of Christian ethical conduct, you can easily gather a working knowledge of the language itself, as the missionary who composed them was careful to put matters of every-day interest in the plain, every-day speech of the islanders. Before closing this brief digression on manuals of piety, I must observe what will prove very useful, I judge, to the scholar, that with works of the first class, as grammars and dictionaries, is to be associated on shelf and desk a goodly number of works of another class—books and treatises that bear the name Arte = Aids to Learning, whereof you will encounter very many in Retana.

The Arte of a given dialect, as will be found true also in a measure for grammars and other school-manuals, will be recognized as a compendium of not only literary rules, but of many practical maxims of daily life, whereby the pupils are urged not only to correct speech, but to upright conduct as well through sobriety, piety to the Supreme Being, obedience to rulers, respect for parents and fellows, according to the noblest ideals of refined Christian manhood and womanhood. Thus, with grammar were taught ethics; with politics, religion.

Referring here to class-books in the Philippines, where from the earliest years of the conquest every pueblo had its school of primary instruction, it will not be irrelevant to point out the fact very stoutly that though education (as admitted by well-nigh every chronicler) was primitive in character,—and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries where was it not? yet the course of instruction given in the common schools of bamboo-thatch was (as results amply testify) deep and solid enough for the intellectual calibre of the people. Since, so far as known, Malaysia, however saintly, heroic, innocent, the same as our own aborigines, albeit now civilized for three centuries and upwards, has, despite the heartiest aid in teachers and funds, fairly lavished on them by Church and state, turned out no man of shining mark, no scholar, no artist, no genius in statecraft or commerce. The first college-institution with pretensions to higher courses of intellectual training was opened (formally at least) by the Jesuits in 1601, less than half a century, that is, after the arrival of Europeans in Luzon.

In regard to common Indian schools, so zealously guarded by the Leyes de las Indias, I have picked up here and there from old-time chroniclers scraps of many ordinances passed by the crown relative to their foundation and conduct. Among them the following bits of quaint old-fashioned oversight of the dominies in charge. Thus, in 1754, I have read that each maestro of a mission-school was to get, in lieu of support, “a peso and one caban—a measure—of rice a month.” (A caban was equal to 75 litres, about the same number of quarts, English.) Again, every mission-priest was called upon to supply (free to his pupils) “paper and ink.” Moreover, as early as the beginning of the century just closing, in 1817, it was ordained that boys’ schools were to be kept on the ground-floor of the mission-house; while the girls were to be taught at their mistress’ home. (Malaysia—thus it was ordained—was not to experiment with the “co-educational theory.”)

Now for the promised works of chief authority on Philippine linguistics,—monuments of the various dialects of that archipelago, that, along with their purely technical value to the student of idioms, will be acknowledged as useful to scholars in even far different lines of intellectual play.

Of the best works for the study of Visaya, or Bisaya, first dialect in the islands acquired by missionary and conquistador, wherein he gives 352 titles (p. xxix), Retana has the following: “Up to a few years ago the dictionary held in highest repute by linguists was the work of the Augustinian scholar Alonso de Méntrida,” a vocabulary of the Hiligueina, or Hiligayno, and Haraya tongues—two of the three chief dialects spoken in Panay, not very different from the Visaya of Cebú, used, however, by the less cultured tribes of hillsmen in that island. This vocabulary, first printed in 1637, and in 1841 republished at Manila, with diagrams of Indian alphabets, enlarged in another edition in 1842, by a brother missionary, Julián Martín, has now been supplanted by the Visaya-Spanish dictionary (in two volumes), of another Augustinian scholar, Juan Félix de la Encarnación, printed at Manila, first, in 1851–1852, then in 1866 and again in 1885.

Another work deserving of praise is the Arte of the Visaya idiom in use in the islands of Sámar and Leite (Binondo, 1872), composed by the Franciscan traveler, Antonio Figuerroa, in which latter language—Leite, that with slight changes is similar to Cebuano, the first grammar was published by the Jesuit missionary, Domingo Ezquerra, in 1662.

Helpful, too, as much as the former Arte in philology is the Christian Doctrine translated into Visaya-Cebuano by the Recoleto scholar and orator, Tomás de San Jerónimo, known to his contemporaries as “the Cicero of Cebú.” His school-book re-issued at Binondo in 1876 is a reprint of his edition of 1731.

Of the Tagal dialect,—a form of speech so hard to acquire with nicety that, according to a Spanish saying, one needs therefor “un año de arte y dos de bahaque,”2 that is to say, unless I am wrong in my interpretation of the last word—“bahaque” which likely is Aeta, the scholar needs “a year of study and two of practice.”

The earliest Tagal Arte, so styled in chronicles, for what with the universal destructive touch of time, and in Luzon especially, the voracity of that pest of librarians, the anay,—an ant that in a few hours, it is said, will devour a library,—cases as well as books, not a sole copy, apparently, has survived, was composed in 1580 by the Augustinian voyager and missionary, Agustín de Albuquerque, fourth superior of his brotherhood in the Philippines, and printed at Manila in 1637.

In Tagal the works most highly praised are the following: The Critical Treatise on Tagalisms (Mexico, 1742), by the Franciscan linguist, Melchior Oyanguren, the only work known wherein that tongue is contrasted on scientific lines with the classic Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and Mandarin Chinese. The author was moved to prepare his manual for the instruction of his brother missionaries prior to their entrance into their field of work in Luzon.

The Tagal dictionary, by the Jesuit missionary, Juan de Noceda, and others of his society (Manila, 1754), a lexicographical treasure, was reprinted at Valladolid in 1836, and (in its most highly-prized form) again, in 1860, at Manila, with valuable additions by some Augustinian experts.

For the scholar unacquainted with Latin, the most serviceable work for learning Tagal is the Essay on Tagal Grammar (Manila, 1878), composed by the Recoleto missionary and linguist, Toribio Minguella de la Merced, whose Grammar (in the same language) for the use of children (Manila, 1886) was adopted for schools by the Spanish government.

While another helpful work for the study of that same dialect is the Tagal catechism, by the Augustinian, Luis de Amezquita, a popular booklet, first printed in 1666, and (in its thirteenth edition) in 1880, at Manila.

A rare and precious treatise, praised for its critical spirit, is the study on Tagal poetry—a compendium of that dialect reprinted at Sampaloc in 1787, from the first edition of 1703; and again at Manila, in 1879, by another member of the same brotherhood, Gaspar de San Agustín, author, besides, of one of the most valued Conquistas, or histories of the islands.

For the study of Tagal refrains—for this people is ballad-lover to the core—and similar turns of speech, an excellent work, one unique of its kind, is the Colección (Guadalupe, 1890), by two well-known Franciscan linguists, Gregorio Martín and Mariano Martínez Cuadrado.

The Tagal Arte (Sampaloc, 1745), along with a manual (also in Tagal) for the administration of the Sacraments, composed by the Franciscan missionary, Sebastián de Totanes, “is” (according to our bibliographer) “the best edition of the best grammar” written by missionaries of that order.

In Ilocano, another of the unnumbered dialects of Luzon, there is a good dictionary (Manila, 1849), by the Augustinian scholar, Andrés Carro (aided by others of his brotherhood)—the first work of its kind, reprinted only a few years ago, in 1888. Serviceable, too, for the study of the same dialect—Ilocano—as doubtless easy to obtain, is the Catecismo, by another member of that same order, Francisco López (Manila, 1877), whereof editions fairly without number have issued.

In Batanes, or Vatanes, a dialect used in the islets north of Luzon, mission-field of the Dominicans, hard to reach, nor easy at best to live in, is composed the Catechism of the Christian Doctrine (Manila, 1834), by a missionary of that order—the only work, perhaps, printed in that language, wherein Retana states he is about to edit a grammar and dictionary. In his Biblioteca (p. 51) he gives the Ave Maria in Batanes, Ibanag and Ilocano, in order to show (he says) the diversities between these idioms.

The Pampanga Arte (Manila, 1729), by the Augustinian, Diego Bergaño, an estimable aid to the would-be learner of that language, was reissued at Sampaloc in 1736. By the same author is a dictionary of Pampanga—the only work of its class, printed at Manila, first in 1732, and again in 1860.

In the Ibanag tongue, otherwise Ibanay or Cagayan, the dictionary by the Dominican linguist, José Bugarín, and companions (Manila, 1854), we have what Retana styles a masterpiece of philological craft, “the first and (in fact) only vocabulary of that dialect” whereof of all Philippine tongues “the orthography is the most difficult to manage.” In another place, however (p. 102), he has named another Ibanag dictionary (Manila, 1867), constructed from Dominican MSS., to which similarly (by error I suppose) he has awarded seniority of press. Prior to the above date—1854—in that vast region of Cagayan, where, by the way, is grown the choicest tobacco in the Philippines, the missionaries, for generation and generation of island-pupils had relied wholly on MS. copies of Padre Bugarín’s dictionary.

In Pangasinán, or Caboalan, dialect used in the province of the same name in Luzon, we have another linguistic treasure—the Arte of Mariano Pellicer, of the same brotherhood, reprinted at Manila, in 1862, from the edition of 1690, whereof in the course of time, as writers tell us, it came to pass that up to about the middle of the present century only one copy survived. Then re-cast by Pellicer, in 1840, it was re-published by him some twenty years later.

Of the Cuyona dialect I note two works of merit,—one (p. 113) an explanation of the Christian Doctrine (Manila, 1871), by the Recoleto missionary, Pedro Gibert de Santa Eulalia, edited by the Dominican Mariano Cuartero, first bishop of St. Isabel, or Elizabeth, of Jaro, in the island of Panay, one of the four suffragans of Manila, an industrious scholar, editor of many works in Indian dialects, whom the reader, however, is not to confound with another prelate of the same name, Recoleto bishop of Nueva Segovia, in Luzon, nephew of the former, who, in this one respect, was like his uncle—author of no book: while the other Cuyona treasure, whereof there are very few in that language, (“poquisimos libros,” says Retana, p. 230), seven titles in all comprising the bibliography of that tongue, is the Plan of Religion (Manila, 1886), by the same industrious and scholarly Gibert.

In the Gaddan idiom, wherein only two books have been printed, both very devotional in character, is a Catechism (Manila, 1833), and the Pathway to Heaven (ib., 1873), by Dominican missionaries in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Isabela, in Luzon.

In the Aeta language of the Negritos, or little black men, perhaps the primitive race of the Philippines—whose name I have encountered in many forms of spelling, as Ata, Ataa, Aeta, Agta, Aita, Ita, Itaa,3 there are similarly, only two works known to Retana, whose bibliographical notices have been of so much value,—one a Report on the Philippine Islands (Paris, 1885), addressed to the French Minister of Public Instruction by J. Montano, a book of over two hundred and nine pages, illumined with numerous phototypes, and, what renders it of exceptional value, enriched with vocabularies, “the first,” Retana declares, in Aeta, Bilaan, Manobo (of the natives of Mindanao), Sámal and Tagacaolo dialects.

As companion volume to the above, though far smaller in bulk, is a little treatise (Dresden, 1893), of double authorship, the German A. B. Meyer giving therein a very interesting Aeta vocabulary, and his Dutch co-laborer, H. Kern, a comparative study of the same tongue, which he traces to Malay ancestry.

For the study of Chamorro, idiom of the Marianas Islands, one will find serviceable the little book of devotions (Manila, 1887), with counsels for the worthy reception of the Sacraments of God, (p. 248)—the only work, in fact, we have in this dialect, by the Recoleto linguist and traveler, Aniceto Ibáñez del Carmen.

Finally, with three other samples of the Philippine press as proofs of the variety of its polyglot fonts, and I shall have done with this digression on the many languages used in this part of Polynesia,—one a grammar in the dialect of Yap or Guap (p. 248), in the western Caroline archipelago (Manila, 1888), composed apparently by the Capuchin missionary, Ambrosio de Valencia; the second (p. 332) a Hispano-Kanaka dictionary (Tambóbong, 1892), by another Capuchin wanderer, according to Retana, Agustín María de Ariñez. While the last, a work, as will readily be acknowledged, of interest as well as importance to ethnologists, linguists, Americanists especially, is the list of Nahuatlisms of Costa Rica (San José de Costa Rica, 1892), by Juan Fernández Ferraz, a goodly-sized volume of over two hundred pages, wherein, on purely linguistic grounds, the author has maintained the kinship of our own Central Americans and the Philippinians, from the fact especially that in the respective countries of these two antipodal peoples, abound very many terms of every-day use, with identical spelling and meaning. In his Biblioteca (p. 340), Retana has gathered a few of these homonyms and synonyms.

Such, then, are the chief authorities on language among our Philippina that, while entertaining, nay instructing the philologist, will delight also the general student, the writers whereof, as the reader will not be slow to observe, were in far larger number all churchmen and missionaries.

In fact, of the 1142 authors, whose works he has enumerated (Biblioteca, xxxv–xxxvi), Retana states that four hundred and sixty-six are ecclesiastics, that is, ninety-eight secular clergymen and three hundred and sixty-eight members of religious brotherhoods, whereof the Augustinians—the writer’s own order—numbering one hundred and forty-one authors, inclusive of thirty-seven Recoletos—the bare-footed branch of that fraternity—figure highest. Next in rank, we have one hundred Dominicans, then fifty-seven Jesuits, fifty-six Franciscans, and fourteen authors of orders not specified.

Of these brotherhoods, who thus in Malaysia, as in other quarters of the globe, brought forth so brilliant an array of scholars and philanthropists, the first-named, the Augustinians, with Legazpi, crossing two oceans and one continent therefore, found a home in the Philippines at the conquest of that archipelago in 1565; in 1577 the first Franciscans reached the isles; in 1581, the Dominicans, with the first bishop of Manila (by actual possession), Domingo Salazar, member of the same brotherhood, accompanied too by some Jesuits, while the Recoletos first crossed the Pacific in 1611.

These churchmen, with very few exceptions Spanish, with later on a sprinkling of Portuguese, Dutchmen, Germans, Italians and Irishmen, scholars, as a rule, of fair repute, some even of European eminence, from their advent into Polynesia, besides their care in implanting Christian altruism, wherewith only (as history attests) thrive science and art, have toiled ever since to imbue these islanders, whom they found heathen—without letters, laws, or settled abode—with learning, the arts of husbandry, building, carving, painting, weaving, and the like graces of intellectual grandeur—in brief, with whatever of civilization now marks Malaysian genius.

From Manila, as centre of intellectual enlightenment for all eastern Asiatic and Polynesian lands in the sixteenth century, were transplanted the germs of philanthropy—of wisdom and charity—to Borneo, the Carolines, Moluccas, as well as the mainland of Asia, to China and Japan, while in India the Portuguese, with headquarters at Goa, fulfilled the same destiny as their Iberian brothers.

Speaking of the heroism of these self-exiled churchmen and worshipers of the Christian Minerva in Asiatic tropics, I quote the words of the famed French savant, Elisée Reclus, a witness, by the way, in no measure partial to cloister life. In his Universal Geography4 he declares that “Los Filipinos son de los pueblos mas civilizados del Extremo Oriente. Los han civilizado los frailes”—that is, “The Philippines are one of the most civilized people of the Far East. The friars have civilized them.”

1 Biblioteca, xxix–xxxi.

2 Relative to this term bahaque, which I have met only once, in the Historia Franciscana, (parte I, lib. i, cap. 39,) is the following description of the black men, the Aetas, or negroes, of Negros, “andan totalmente desnudos,” (the author says,) “y solo traen cubiertas las partes verendas con unos como Lienzos, tirantes de atrás á adelante, que se llamen Bahaques, los quales hacen de cortesas de Arboles majadas con gran tiento, de modo que ay algunos, que parecen Lienzo fino; y rodeandose por la Cintura un Bejúco, en el amarran el Bahaque por sus dos extremos.” See Zúñiga, i, 423, wherefore, perhaps, the significance of bahaque in the proverb.

3 Retana’s Appendix G, in Zúñiga’s Estadismo, ii, *492.

4 This quotation is from page 28 of Apostolado de la Prensa, No. 82 (Madrid, 1898), which locates it in tome xiv, p. 541, of Reclus.

III.

Some Literary Curios among Philippina.

Among the curios of artistic and literary cast, your bright-minded reader, if on the alert to spy anything deserving of notice, will find here and there in Retana’s pages enshrined many a bit of out-of-the-way information. The following half dozen or so of oddities will probably be acknowledged, not unworthy of mention among these Philippina:

They are La Razon: A Plea Against Certain Vexatious Encroachments of the Crown on Mexican and Manila Trade, by José Nuño de Villavicencio (Sampaloc, 1737), which bears on its cover the most tasty design by Philippine burin—a plate illustrative of the contents of the Plea, engraved by Francisco Suárez, a Tagal artist.

El Cosmopolita—The Cosmopolitan—(Manila, 1895–1896), the first periodical (p. 458), with phototypes, published in the islands.

The first Almanac and Guide-Book for strangers and travelers, with a Map of the Archipelago, was issued at Manila for the year 1834.

The newspaper—El Ilocano—a bi-weekly, published in Spanish and Ilocano at Manila (p. 464), from 1889 to 1896 (?) was the first periodical written in Indian dialect.

Again, another periodical—El Hogar (p. 464), The Fireside—a weekly, of 16 pages, started at Manila in 1892, under the direction of Madam Amparo Gómez de la Serna, was the first paper devoted to science, letters, beaux-arts, and useful information published almost exclusively in the interests of women, while the Revista de Filipinas (p. 132), a bi-weekly, that, starting at Manila in 1875, lived only two years, is the worthiest of Philippine periodicals, noticeable chiefly for the deeply scientific cast of its papers.

The Romancero Filipino, a work of fancy (Manila, 1892), by Manuel Romero Aquino, is styled (p. 554) by Retana the neatest and best piece of work by Philippine pen.

While The American Soldier, a four-page daily newspaper, whereof the opening number is dated Manila, September 10, 1898, is the first periodical, maybe print of any sort, in the English language, published in the islands.

With the foregoing extravaganzas of literature we note that the series of Philippine periodicals, which in Retana’s own collection number (he says) one hundred and twelve, in their entirety do not surpass one hundred and sixty. Of his own he gives the titles (Biblioteca, xxiii–xxviii) from Del Superior Gobierno, the first newspaper issued in the islands, with the imprint of Manila, August 8, 1811, down to the latest—Thé Kon Leche (Tea and Milk)—a four-page weekly satirical periodical, with illustrations (in two colors), published at Manila in 1898.

The oldest piece of what we may style distinctively Philippine literature, whereof, moreover, only one copy is believed to be extant, albeit printed abroad in Europe, is an Account of Legazpi’s Expedition from Mexico to Cebú in 1565, sent from Seville to one Miguel Salvador, of Valencia, and printed one year later at Barcelona. This Copia—thus entitled in Retana—heads his list of Philippina, a study of which, with the supplement (p. 505 et seq.), discloses the fact that of the books that head his Biblioteca, the first nineteen were printed abroad—eighteen in Europe; that is, nine in Spain, at Barcelona, Madrid, Burgos, Valencia and Seville; seven in Italy, at Rome, Genoa and Venice; one each in France, at Paris, and in Flanders, at Antwerp (“Amberes” in the Spanish), where a Mendoza’s History of China was printed in 1596, by Bellero; and the nineteenth in Mexico.

The first fruit itself of the Philippine press—thus styled by Retana, though mistakenly, we judge—was the Spanish-Japanese Dictionary of 1630, on which I will make some remarks when treating of the early Philippine press.

Moreover, it is noticeable that of these earliest Philippina not one of them treats distinctively of religious matters, but—with the exception of two, Fragoso’s and Acosta’s Botanies, or works on Eastern flora—are wholly historical in character, embracing, as they do, along with the Copia of 1566, eleven editions of the still estimable history of China and other Asiatic lands, by the Augustinian traveler, Juan González de Mendoza, whereof the Roman edition (by Vincenzo Acolti in 1585) gives plates illustrative of Chinese typographical symbols—the first shown to Europeans. Of this history, it may be observed, thirty-eight editions have appeared in all—in Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, and English. Among these early Philippina—to continue our analysis—is a history of that archipelago, by the Franciscan chronicler, Marcelo de Ribadeneyra; a report on the same islands, by the Jesuit scholar, Pedro Chirino—the first work of its kind published in Europe (Rome, 1604), with diagrams of Philippine characters—signs, namely, employed by the natives in writing, whereof, says Retana, “a miserable edition” was printed at Manila in 1890. Then follow other works, among them a story of the conquest of the Moluccas, one of the sixteenth century names of the Philippines, a work of utmost value to the historical writer, composed by the presbyter, Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (Madrid, 1609); then a trustworthy account of the triumph of Spanish arms in the Philippines, by Antonio de Morga, auditor-general of the crown in those colonies, printed in Mexico in 1609; and lastly the report of Governor Francisco Guzman de Tello, eleventh captain-general of those islands (Seville, 1598?).

The two merely scientific works, alluded to ahead, are “Discourses on Aromatic Things—Plants, Fruit, and the like simple Medicines employed in the East Indies,” composed by Juan Fragoso, a rare and curious work (Madrid, 1572); and a Treatise on the Drugs and Medicines used in the East Indies, with plates representing various plants, by Cristóbal Acosta, published first in Spanish at Burgos in 1578; in Latin (in two editions) in 1582 and 1593; in French (also in two editions) in 1602 and 1619; lastly in English in 1604.

IV.

Philippine Presses.

Now for a description of the different printing-presses—or, rather, places—in the Philippines, from the earliest named by Retana in his Biblioteca, in all fourteen distinct localities, where printing was carried on in the three islands of Luzon, Panay and Cebú.

1.—From an analysis of the titles I find that Manila ranks earliest, where (with limitations to be set later) a printing-press was established in 1630, in which year, at the Dominican College of St. Thomas, a Spanish-Japanese dictionary, the work of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries and scholars, now translated into Spanish, was printed by Tomás Pinpin, a native Tagal, and Jacinto Magaurlua. This dictionary (now extremely rare), even though not the first book printed in the islands, as stated by Retana, must yet be ranked among the earliest specimens of Philippine literature.

In his Bibliography three different titles (we may observe) bear the imprint of Manila, with the name of this city spelled according to the ancient aboriginal form, albeit but slightly varied from the present—“Maynila”—otherwise, as I have read it, “Mainilla,” a variant in orthography one encounters in old chronicles—a Tagal word (it seems) signifying a species of shrub or bush, in the Spanish rendered arbusto, that in 1571 was found to cover the site of the new city projected by the conquistadores, under the leadership of Miguel López de Legazpi.

In this same year, it may be added, the site of the future metropolis of Malaysia was taken possession of by Spanish arms, with due observance of ceremonial, sealed with the three local chieftains,1 Lacandola, Matandá and Soliman, by blood-bargain—pacto de sangre.2 Here, too, at Manila, the second church in Malaysia devoted to the Supreme Being, the first having been founded at Cebú, was dedicated the same year (1571) to God, under the most fitting title of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, first great missionary to heathendom. At Cebú, by agreement with Chief Tupas, the standard of Christian comity—the Cross—had been reared in 1565, and its church dedicated in honor of St. Michael Archangel, name-saint of Legazpi, though shortly after rechristened El Santo Niño—the Holy Child—its title to-day.

The three works then printed at “Maynila,” or Bush Town, in Luzon, are a Manual of Devotions to St. Roch, translated into Tagal by the Augustinian missionary, Esteban Diez, a skilled Tagalist, in 1820; a periodical—the Revista Católica—whereof the first and only number (p. 309) was issued in 1890; and lastly, a weekly paper (the same as the former) in Tagal, published in 1896.

2.—The second place to witness the establishment of a press was Sampaloc, in Zambales province, in Luzon, where, in 1736, at the Franciscan convent of Our Lady of Loreto, was printed the Augustinian Diego Bergaño’s Arte, in Pampanga—first fruit, it seems, of typographical genius in that pueblo. While the last imprint with the name of Sampaloc is an almanac, or church calendar, for the year 1838 (more probably, however, printed the year ahead), when the old press, founded by Franciscan friars a hundred years before, disappears.

3.—At Tayabas, in the province of the same name, in Luzon (p. 31), was printed a Tagal dictionary, by the Franciscan, Totanes, now supplanted, however, by Noceda’s far superior work on philological score, especially with the additions made thereto by the Augustinians in the Manila edition of 1860. This Tayabas imprint is the only work I have encountered with the name of that pueblo.

4.—The first Cavite imprint (p. 38) dates (it seems) from 1815—a church calendar for the following year; while the last, with the name of this Manila suburb written, however, with a K—“Kavite”—is an appeal of the revolutionary party in 1898 (p. 451), under the official seal of the Gobierno Dictatorial de Filipinas.

5.—Binondo is the fifth place, whereof the first work—statistical reports of Franciscan missionaries—was printed in 1865; the last, José Patricio Clemente’s Moral Lectures for Youth (p. 540), in 1872. In regard, however, to this town, it should be observed that in his earlier bibliography (ed. 1893) Retana names a work printed by Pinpin in the Hospital of St. Gabriel, at Binondo, in 1623.

6.—At Vigan, the old Villa Fernandina of the Ilocos, known also to Spaniards as Nueva Segovia, a city founded in the sixteenth century by Juan Salcedo, one of the captains under Legazpi, and so christened by him in memory of his native place in Spain, but now known as Lalo, or Lal-lo,—here was started a Sunday newspaper, El Eco de Vigan, published in Ilocano in 1883, that died, however, a year after birth.

7.—In Iloilo (on the island of Panay) was printed, in 1885, the pastoral letter of Alejandro Arrué, Recoleto bishop of St. Isabel, or Elizabeth, of Jaro.

8.—Then comes Guadalupe, eighth place on our list, a sanctuary village on the left bank of the river Tasig, a couple of leagues from Manila, a shrine founded by Augustinians in 1601, in honor of St. Nicholas, the wonder-worker of Tolentino, a place visited yearly by great numbers of Chinese Confucians, as well as Christians, who hold that saint in highest and most singular veneration. At Guadalupe, in 1886, issued two works from the orphanage press—An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine of Pouguet and Fleuri, drawn up in Bisaya by Father Mateo Pérez, Augustinian cure of Argao; and Lozano’s Novena to St. Thomas of Villanova. The last imprint of Guadalupe—a Tagal Catechism, by Luis de Amezquita, a brother missionary of Pérez—bears the date 1890.

9.—The earliest sample of Cebú print—the island where, under Legazpi, three centuries earlier, civilization first found a footing in Malaysia—is a work that elicits from Retana remarkable praise, in view of the difficulties that attended its printing; the paper—such was the dearth in the Visayas of proper material for good press-work—being of five or six different qualities in body, make, color. This work, that I think we may style a triumph of adaptive art, is the Ensayo para una Galería de Asturianos ilustres, a genealogical monument (in three volumes), by the Augustinian antiquary, Fabiáno Rodríguez, begun in 1888 and completed in 1893. While the last Cebú imprint, a government statistical report on crime and the like, is dated 1892.

10.—Tambóbong, a pueblo near the coast, in Tondo province, about three miles from Manila, comes tenth in our list, where, at the orphan asylum of Our Lady of Consolation, in 1889, was printed a weekly newspaper—the Revista Católica de Filipinas—discontinued in 1896. While the last imprint from this press—An Abridgment of the History of Spain (of only eight pages)—was issued, presumably, in 1897.

11.—At Nueva Caceres, or Camarines, in Luzon, a town founded in the sixteenth century by Governor Francisco Sande, in memory of his birthplace in Estremadura, but now known even officially as Naga, the first work bearing the name of that pueblo—a hand-book of devotions—issued from the press of the Sagrada Familia, in 1893; and two years later (in 1895) the last—A Life of St. Monica and her son, St. Augustine—written, the same as the former, in Bícol dialect.

12.—In 1895, we read the earliest printed samples of Malabón art—a poetical tribute of gratitude to Our Lady of Welcome—Bien-Venida, one of the many titles of the Mother of God, so dear to Philippine soul, by Fructuoso Arias Camisón, from the orphan-press of Our Lady of Consolation (in care of Augustinians). Only once, it may be noted, is the name of this pueblo—encountered quite frequently in Retana, the same (he says) as Tambóbong, written “Malabóng,” a somewhat unusual form of spelling—employed by Manuel Sastrón, in his description of Batangas, printed in 1895.

From several specimens of Malabón press-work, now before me, I may observe that, for accuracy in composition, neatness—in brief, of general excellence in workmanship—these samples of the orphanage establishment at Malabón would not fail to honor even a Philadelphia craftsman.

Two years ago (in 1898), just prior to the siege of Manila, under the care of two Fathers and four lay-brothers of the Augustinians, resident at this orphan asylum, one hundred and one lads were being taught the following trades: 13 compositors, 12 press-workers, 30 bookbinders, 3 gilders, 43 candlemakers, while 44 other youngsters, too small for hard work, were, the same as their seniors, given food, clothing, and shelter;3 while similarly, at Mandaloya orphan asylum for girls, conducted by twenty-two sisters (of the same order), a hundred and twenty-two lassies were taught music (piano), painting, drawing, embroidery, flower-, lace- and dress-making, hair-dressing, laundry-work, and sewing.4

But alas! it is feared that through the grim fate of war a like disaster, as has wrecked many another fair shrine of learning and art in countries even nearer our own, has befallen our studios and laboratories at Malabón and Mandaloya, that therefrom their inmates—orphans, instructors and care-takers are now wanderers, with their treasures ravished, their homes destroyed.

13.—Then we meet with a work printed in 1896, at the revolutionary press at Imus, in Cavite province, in Luzon,—a proclamation (in Tagal)—the only imprint bearing the name of this pueblo.

14.—Finally, in 1898, at Mandaloyon, or Mandaloya (named ahead), an old hacienda of the Augustinians in Tondo province, in Luzon, the morning-paper—La República Filipina—began publication with the flag of the new-born republic in colors for heading,—the first journal of the Tagal insurgents, that had so much to do in bringing about the downfall of Spanish rule in the Philippines.

Before concluding this section on early presses, we may add the references made by Retana to other Philippine prints than the ones given in his Biblioteca. In a former work5 he states that by certain writers, whom he names, presses were said to have been established on the isle of Luzon, viz: at Bacolor in 1619; Macabebe in 1621; and Tayabas in 1703. Similarly, he cites two works, named by the Franciscan antiquarian Huerta as having been printed at Manila earlier than the Bugarín dictionary—the Devocion Tagalog in 1610; and a Diccionario in 1613, both (according to Huerta) from the press of Tomás Pinpin, the Tagal printer. Moreover, under the heading of “Manila” and “Pinpin,” Retana gives the dates of several still older imprints than the Japanese dictionary of 1630, which in his Biblioteca has been accorded the honor of senior of the Philippine press.

The reason for the omission of these titles in Retana’s later bibliography, that otherwise would seem unaccountable, is perhaps a doubt as to their genuinity. But why he should fail to mention this flaw in their line of ancestral title, is like many another perplexing problem that the scholar is apt to encounter in his wanderings through the shadowy, albeit delightful and fascinating realm of letters.

We now pass on to the question of the introduction of the press into the Philippines.

1 In old Spanish chronicles it is a common thing to meet such titles of these Indian rulers, as Ladia, Radia, Raxa, and Rajá. Lacandola was rajah of Manila.

2 The Augustinian chronicler, Grijalva, is one of the earliest writers to describe this rite, which, according to him, is performed as follows: “La cerimonia se haze, sacando delos pechos delos que contraen la amistad una poca de sangre, y mezelando la una, y la otra en un poco de vino, le veuen por iguales partes los contrayentes.” (Cronaca del Orden, from 1533–1592, Mexico (in the Augustinian Convent), 1624.) Quotation from Zúñiga, ii, 215. From Buzeta, i, 395, it appears that blood-bargain was first entered into by Legazpi (in 1565) at Bohol, with Chief Sicatuna.

3 From the report of the Orphanage for 1897–1898, in Estado General, Malabón, 1898.

4 From the report of the Orphanage at Mandaloya, in Estado (as ahead).

5 See Appendix B, in Zúñiga’s Estadismo, ii, *105–*123, where Retana has given, with a list of the early presses in the Philippines, the names of the printers.

V.

Introduction of Printing into the Philippines.

As regards the introduction of printing itself into that archipelago, wherein (as writers agree) the first press was set to work in the opening years of the seventeenth century, yet there is dispute as to two points,—the precise date, namely, when the printing-press was first established there, and the country whence it was carried to those islands.

Though in his Biblioteca Retana inferentially states that the Spanish-Japanese Dictionary of 1630 was the earliest Philippine imprint, yet in another work of a few years ahead, one of his numerous valuable appendices to Zúñiga’s Travels,1 the same author has maintained, rightly and soundly enough it would seem, a wholly different opinion. There he reproduces the title-page of a work printed twenty years earlier, in 1610, which he himself saw in the Museo Biblioteca de Ultramar, whereof the title (he declares) is as follows:

Arte y Reglas | de la Lengua | Tagala. | Por el Padre. F. Fray Francisco de. S. Joseph de la | Ordē de. S. Domingo Predicador General en la Prouincia | de. N. Señora del Rosario de las Islas Filipinas. |

[Here the Grand Seal of the Dominican Order (in wood) with this legend:]

| Mihi avtem ab | sit glorianisi incruce Dñi Ñri IESVXPIAD—| GAL. 6. |

| En el Partido de Bataan | galo, Año de 1610. |

Substantially the aforesaid title means that the book—a Tagal grammar—was composed by Father Francisco de S. Joseph (whose family-name (as otherwise known) was Blancas), of the Dominican Order, preacher-general of his province of Our Lady of the Rosary in the Philippines, and printed at Bataan, A.D. 1610.2

In one of his Appendices to Zúñiga,3 Retana affirms that the printer of this Arte was the Tagal Tomás Pinpin.

Why, then, with this sample of early Philippine typography before his eyes, presumably yet extant on the shelves of the Museo de Ultramar, Retana (whose interesting description of Blancas’ Arte of 1610 will shortly follow) should have deemed it right to omit all mention of it in his latest bibliography, wherein, so far as I can read, there is not the slightest reference to it, seems truly a literary conundrum—one that, for me at least, baffles all power of solution.

However, accepting facts in the world of letters, as in the objective universe of God’s creation, as they stand, as we see them and know them, with the guidance of Retana himself, we now proceed (as promised) to a description of this Tagal grammar, the earliest specimen of Philippine typography known at least to be extant.

Blancas’ Arte is a book printed on rice paper—papel de arroz—with a preface of sixteen unnumbered pages and three hundred and eleven (of text) numbered, that is, three hundred and twenty-seven in all, yet in one instance wrongly paged, since the observant eye of our bibliographer has detected that what really is page 157 in the Arte has been printed “156,” the body of the grammar thus comprising, not 311 pages, as the printer has made it, but in reality 312.

On the verso of the title (that is, page 2) are given various licenses to print, issued among other officials by Miguel Ruiz of Binondoc (an old form apparently for the town now known as Binondo), this permit being dated February 6, 1609. Then follow the licenses of Father Blancas’ own provincial superior, dated Manila, June 3, and another official’s, whose name (Retana says) is missing by reason of the page having been torn, dated from Quiapo, on (month too wanting) 24, of the same year—1609—with the former.

On the third page, with the date July 28, 1609, we read the names of several Manila church-officers, eight in all, licensing Father Blancas’ Arte, among them the dean of the cathedral-chapter of Manila, the archdeacon Arellano, and Pedro de Rojas, who, as secretary apparently of that body, adds his attestation to the chapter-action above.

From pages 4 to part of 7 is a Tagal Hymn to the Holy Virgin, Mother of Our Lord; then following the finale of this hymn, a prayer to God, Almighty Giver of all intellectual light, for power to be granted His servants to learn of His wisdom and ability to tell it to the Tagals.

Then, following some ancient Tagal characters, comes the grammar in chief, which has been printed (as is obvious)4 from type, bearing distinct marks of use. Wherefore, since we have now concluded Retana’s description of this Arte, we, in turn, may observe—the inference seems lawful—that our Bataan press of 1610 had been at work before that year, and Father Blancas’ Arte is not the earliest Philippine imprint.

A point made by Retana with reference to Bataan, place of imprint on the title thereof, is to this effect that instead of Bataan, name (he says) of a province, and in olden time of a very unimportant pueblo (known, however, more correctly as “Batan”),5 one should read Abucay, capital of the province of Bataan, a far likelier place for the establishment of a printing-office.6

So much, then, for the still more ancient work than Bugarín’s dictionary of 1630.

But how much earlier than 1610, date of the Tagal Arte, or in what part of the Philippine archipelago, the press was at work, is a puzzle, that relying on the only authorities bearing in any manner on the priority of the press, we shall now seek to unravel.

When referring to this question of early typography7 Retana declares that there are only two authors that treat of the introduction of the press into the Philippines,—one the history of his province (of the Holy Rosary), which with the Philippines embraced also China and Japan, by the Dominican traveler and missionary, Father Diego Aduarte, whose work, published at Manila, in 1640, is the second title in our Biblioteca, bearing the name of that city as place of imprint, and the only old-time authority (in print) treating of ancient Malaysian typography.

The other is a history (published a few years ago) entitled La Orden de Predicadores, of the Dominicans (Madrid, 1884), by a member of that brotherhood, Father Martínez-Vigil, at one time resident at Manila, where he held a chair in the university of that city, and now (1900) bishop of Oviedo in Spain.

We shall, therefore, summon these two witnesses in the question in point of primeval Philippina.

Aduarte’s reference to early typography8 contains substantially the following statements: that living with the Fathers of his Order (at Binondo) was a Christian Chinese, named Juan de Vera, a most worthy man, printer by trade, who had learned his art at home, and “the first printer” in the Philippines; that moreover he was employed by Father Blancas in getting out divers hand-books of devotion for the Indians, as well as for the missionaries themselves; and that as the said Juan was a good worker, always busy at his trade, he printed very many books, among them a Memorial of the Christian life; book on the postrimerias—that is, the Four Great Last Truths—Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell; Preparation for Communion; Confession-Book; the Mysteries of the Rosary; an Arte for the Tagals, or Aid to learn Spanish, and the like. Such are the titles of some of the books printed at Binondo by Juan de Vera.

Commenting on the above statements of Aduarte, our bibliographer, however, makes this very sensible observation,—the omission, namely, of any positive information on two points of utmost importance to the antiquary and historian,—at what time, that is, was de Vera’s press set up in the Philippines; and whence was it brought to those islands? Anent the first press it is noteworthy (according to the unanimous opinion of critics) that it certainly was not carried thither from Spain, though maybe sent over from Mexico, where printing was established in the early years of the sixteenth century, Retana, however, maintaining as likelier that the first printing-outfit introduced into the Philippines was brought thither from Japan, where (as we otherwise know) a book, the Sanctos no Gosagueo, or Compendium of the Lives of the Saints, was printed at the Jesuit College at Katsusa, in 1591. In the same kingdom I find printed (at another Jesuit College) at “Nangasaki,” in 1603, the Vocabulario de Japón, Japanese ancestor of the old Bugarín dictionary elsewhere referred to (in this paper) as having been published at Manila in 1630.9 In Japan,—the fact is worth noting,—ten different works were printed in Roman characters prior to the year 1599.

But let us return to Luzon. If Aduarte is right in his assertion that Juan de Vera was “the first printer in the Philippines,” then the press was at work prior to the year 1610, and the Tagal Arte (just described) is not the forerunner of Philippine imprints.

So much for one of Retana’s oracles. Now pass we on to consider the second and only other writer that, with original sources at hand, has treated of this bibliographical problem, Father Martínez-Vigil, who, in the story of his order (named ahead) mentions this fact, that when resident at Manila he was shown a very rich codex—a MS.—of over six hundred folios, on Chinese paper, in perfect condition, for many reasons (all duly set forth) of unassailable authenticity, and albeit (he remarks) somewhat hard to decipher, except to a palæontologist, yet written with marvelous clearness and neatness of penmanship. In this MS., which (the Father says) was written during the years 1609–1610, besides an account of all notable occurrences in the islands from 1581 to 1606, with which latter year the story ends, four years earlier, you should observe, than Pinpin’s Arte of 1610, are also to be read these words: “Los que primero imprimieron fueron del órden de San Agustín el P. Fr. Juan de Villanueva, algunos tratadillos; mas del órden de Sto. Domingo el P. Fr. Francisco de San Joseph cosas mayores y de mas tomo el primero que escribió en lengua araya fué de la Compañia.”

Whereof, the meaning substantially is, that “the first printers (in the Philippines) were of the Order of St. Augustine, among them Father Juan de Villanueva, publisher of some small treatises—tratadillos; then others of the Order of St. Dominic, of whom Father Francisco de San Joseph printed works of larger bulk, and was the first of his brethren to write in araya (Tagal?).”

Here then, in these quotations from two Dominican monuments—Aduarte’s history and the MS. (quoted by Martínez-Vigil), the latter ending with events of the year 1606—you have all that antiquity tells of the introduction of the printing-press into the Philippines.

To the assertion (in the MS.), relative to the Augustinian press, may be appended an item or so in regard to the art-establishment of that order at Lubao, in Pampanga province in Luzon, which I have picked up from one of their chroniclers, Gaspar de San Agustín, a Tagal and Visaya linguist, who died, some say at Tondo, others at Manila, in 1724, after nearly fifty years’ mission-service in the islands. In his history (Madrid, 1698), are the following words in reference to Lubao convent: “Se han celebrado en este Convento algunos Capitulos intermedios y mucho tiempo huvo Estudios menores de Gramatica y Retorica; y teniamos tambien en él una muy buena Imprenta, traida del Japón, en que se imprimian muchos libros, assi en la lengua Española como Pampanga y Tagala.”10

In brief, that is, Father Gaspar says that “in Lubao convent, where the order maintained a school of grammar and rhetoric, there was a press (brought from Japan), whereon many books were printed in Spanish, Pampanga, and Tagal.” May we not, then, be justified in surmising that this Lubao press was the one referred to in the MS. adduced by Martínez-Vigil, that attributes to Augustinians the introduction of typography into the Philippines? And, moreover, since the said ancient MS. ends with the year 1606, that this Lubao press was at work at a still earlier date?

But, enough. With no originals at hand, we feel disinclined to pursue this topic further as to the priority of printing in the islands, nor do we care to press the question, whether, namely, the first book of Philippine manufacture was Bugarín’s dictionary of 1630, Blancas’ Arte of 1610, or the Lubao tratadillos of 1606.

In our own colonies (we may observe) printing was introduced, first at Cambridge in Massachusetts, in 1638; while in Pennsylvania the first book printed—an almanac—by William Bradford, of Philadelphia, is dated 1685, a full half century later, that is, than the introduction of this “art preservative of arts” into Malaysia.

1 Zúñiga Estadismo, ii, 101.

2 Provinces of the other friars in Malaysia (including the Philippines) are entitled as follows: Augustinians—Most Holy Name of Jesus; Franciscans—St. Gregory the Great; Hospitallers—St. Raphael Archangel; Recoletos—St. Nicholas of Tolentino.

3 Zúñiga Estadismo, Appendice B, ii, *103, *104, and *115.

4 Thus Retana, ii, *103 (as above).

5 Zúñiga Estadismo, ii, *350.

6 Id., ii, *104–*105.

7 Id., ii, *95–*100.

8 For the original in full (too long to quote here) see Retana in Estadismo (as above), ii, *95–*98, where it covers nearly three pages.

9 The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan. 1591–1610. By Ernest Mason Satow. [Privately printed.] 1888, where you will find reproduced in photographic fac-simile the title-page of the above-named books.

10 Zúñiga, Estadismo, ii, *111–*112.

Index

A

Aborigines of Philippines, their rites, etc., 13

Abridgment of Christian Doctrine of Pouguet and Fleuri, 29 History of Spain, at Tambóbong, 29

Abucay, capital of province of Bataan, 34

Acolti, Vincenzo, 25

Acosta, Christóbal, Treatise on Drugs and Medicines used in East Indies, by, 26 various editions of his Treatise on Drugs, 26

Acosta’s Botany, 25

Adanes, difficulty of conversion of, 10

Aduarte, Diego, Dominican missionary, 34 on early Philippine typography, 35 Retana on statements of, 35

Aeta dialect or language: a parent tongue, 6, 7 antiquity of, 6 comparative study of, 22 Dictionary by Meyer, A. B., 22 first vocabulary in, 22 meaning of the word bahaque in, 19 mother tongue in the Philippines, 7 Report on the Philippine Islands, in, 21 traced to Malay, 22 used in Negros, 5 various forms of spelling the word, 21

Aetas of Negros described, 19

Agta, a form of word Aeta, 21

Aita, a form of word Aeta, 21

Albuquerque, Agustín de, Augustinian missionary, 19 earliest Tagal Arte by, 19 fourth Superior in the Philippines, 19

Almanac printed at Sampaloc, 1838, 28 the first in Manila, 1834, 24

American colonies, when printing first introduced in, 37

American Soldier, first periodical in English, in Manila, 24

Amezquita, Luis de, Augustinian missionary, 19, 29 Tagal Catechism by, 19, 29

Anay, a book-destroying ant described, 19

Annals of religious brotherhoods in the East, 14

Ant, see Anay

Apayaos, difficulty of conversion of, 10

Apostolado de la Prensa, quoted, 23

Aquino, Manuel Romero, author of Romancero Filipino, 24

Araya dialect, query same as Tagal, 36

Archipelago del Sur, history of, by Combés, 9

Arellano, archdeacon of cathedral chapter of Manila, 33

Argao, Pérez Mateo, Augustinian cure of, 29

Ariñez, Agustín María de, Capuchin, 22 Hispano-Kanaka Dictionary by, 22

Arrué, Alejandro, pastoral letter by, 29 Recoleto bishop, 29

Arte by Bergaño, Diego, in Pampanga dialect, 1736, 20, 28 by Figuerroa, Antonio, described, 18 by Mentrida, 6 by Pellicer, Mariano, in Caboalan dialect, 21 by Pellicer, Mariano, in Pangasinán dialect, 21 earliest Tagal, 1580, described, 19 equivalent to “aids to learning”, 17 for the Tagals printed at Binondo, 35 in Tagal, by Totanes, described, 20 M.S. account of tratadillos, in 1606, before Pinpin’s, 36, 37 of Blancas in 1610, 37 not earliest Philippine imprint, 34 recast by Pellicer in 1840, 21

Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala described, 33 Retana infers Pinpin to have been printer of, 33 Retana quotes this as earliest Philippine imprint, 32

Ascension Island, various names of, 6

Asia, mainland of, 23

Ata, a form of word Aeta, 21

Ataa, a form of word Aeta, 21

Augustine, Saint, see Saint Augustine

Augustinian: Amezquita, Luis de, 19 Bergaño, Diego, 20, 28 López, Francisco, 20 Mercado, Ignacio, the botanist, 10 San Agustín, Gaspar de, 20 Villanueva, Juan de, 36 Zúñiga, Joaquín Martínez de, see Zúñiga antiquary, Rodriguez, Fabiáno, 29 chronicler, Grijalva, 27 experts revised Tagal Dictionary, 19 missionary, Albuquerque, Agustín de, 19 Amezquita, Luis de, 29 Diez, Esteban, 28 missionary, Martín, Julián, 18 Ortiz, Tomás, 13 Pérez, Mateo, 29 order of Friars, 4 scholar, Carro, Andrés, 20 Encarnación, Juan, Félix de la, 18 Méntrida, Alonso de, 18 traveler, Gonzalez de Mendoza, 25 writer, Blanco, Manuel, 4, 10 Carillo, Manuel, 10

Augustinians, colonial museum at Valladolid of, 13 founded shrine of Guadalupe 1601, 29 furnished first Philippine printers, 36 held old hacienda at Mandaloya, 31 in charge of orphan-press of Malabón, 30 managed Malabón Orphanage, 30 Mandaloya Orphanage, 30 one hundred and forty-one included in Retana’s catalogue, 23 Province of Most Holy Name of Jesus, 32 settled in Philippines 1565, 23

Authorities on Philippine dialects, 8, 16

Ave Maria in various dialects described, 20

Avila, Lafuente, Casimiro, member of brotherhood at, 12

B

Bacolor, printing-press established, 1619, at, 31

Bagobo dialect or language, 5

Bahaque, likely is Aeta, 19 meaning of word doubtful, 19

Bancroft, Hubert, indebted to annals of religious brotherhoods for his material, 15

Baranda, Isidro Sainz de, government inspector of mines, 11

Baranda, Isidro Sainz de, on geology of the Philippines, 11

Barbara, Santa, see Santa Barbara

Barcelona, books published at, see Books oldest piece of Philippine literature printed at, 25 plates of Flora lithographed at, 4

Bataan, books published at, see Books Retana upon, 34

Batan, original spelling of Bataan, 34 see Bataan

Batanes dialect or language, 5 Ave Maria in, 20 Catechism of Christian Doctrine in, 20 used in Isle of Batanes, 5 islets north of Luzon, 20

Batangas, by Sastrón, Manuel, 30

Bergaño, Diego, Arte by, 28 Arte in Pampanga dialect by, 20 Augustinian, 20, 28 Dictionary of Pampanga dialect by, 20

Biblioteca by Retana, enumerates 1142 authors, 22 first nineteen books enumerated were printed abroad, 25 Ortiz’ Práctica omitted in, 13 quoted, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22, 25, 31, 32

Bícol dialect or language, 5 hand-book of devotions in, 30 Life of Saint Monica in, 30

Bien-Venida, by Camisón, Fructuoso Arias, 30

Bilaan dialect or language, 5 first vocabulary in, 22

Bilao, described by Zúñiga, 13

Binondo, Arte of Visaya idiom used in, described, 18 books published at, see Books early Philippine books printed by Juan de Vera, 35 fifth printing-press in Philippines at, 28 Retana authority for a work printed by Pinpin at, 28 Ruiz, Miguel, an official of, 33 see Binondoc

Binondoc, old form of Binondo, 33 see Binondo

Bisaya dialect or language: Abridgment of Christian Doctrine in, 29 best works for the study of, described, 18 first dialect in the Philippines, 18 generic name, 5

Bisaya-Montés dialect or language, 6

Blancas de San José, Francisco, Arte of 1610, 37 assisted by Vera, Juan de, 35 Dominican, 32, 36 his Arte described, 33 not earliest Philippine imprint, 34 Tagal language written by, 36

Blanco, Manuel, Augustinian writer, 4, 10 author of Flora, 4, 10 translator into Tagal of Tissot’s work on medicine, 10

Blood-bargain, rite of, described, 27

Blumentritt, Fernando, on identity of Polynesians, 7

Bohol the scene of Legazpi’s blood-bargain, 27

Bonabe, a dialect of Yap, 6

Bongsol, described by Zúñiga, 13

Bonibet, a dialect of Yap, 6

Books published at: Barcelona, Legazpi’s Expedition, 1566, 25 Bataan, Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala, 1610, 32 Binondo, Arte for the Tagals, 35 Arte of the Visaya idiom, 1872, 18 Clemente, José Patricio, Moral Lectures, 1872, 28 Confession-Book, 35 Memorial of the Christian Life, 35 Mysteries of the Rosary, 35 Postrimerias, 35 Preparation for Communion, 35 re-issue of school book of San Jerónimo, Tomás de, 1876, 18 statistical reports of Franciscan Missionaries, 1865, 28 work by Pinpin, 1623, 28 Burgos, Treatise on Drugs and Medicines, 1578, 26 Cavite, Church calendar, 1815, 28 Gobierno Dictatorial de Filipinas, 28 Cebú, Ensayo ... Asturianos, 1888–1893, 29 statistical report on crime, 1892, 29 Costa Rica, San José de, Nahuatlisms, 22 Dresden, Aeta dialect, vocabulary of, 1893, 22 Guadalupe, Abridgment of Christian Doctrine, 1886, 29 Novena to St. Thomas of Villanova, 29 Tagal Catechism, 1890, 29 Tagal Refrains, by Martin and Cuadrado, 1890, 20 Iloilo, pastoral letter of Arrué, 1885, 29 Imus, Proclamation in Tagal, 1896, 31 London, Estadismo (translation), 1814, 11 Madrid, Catalogo, by Panduro, 1800–1805, 7 Discourses, on, Aromatic Things, 1572, 26 Encyclopedia of Buzeta and Bravo, 1851, 13 Geology of the Philippines, 1840?, 11 Historical Geography of Philippines, 1752, 10 History of Marianas, 1875, 10 History of Philippines, 1698, 36 History of tribes in Luzon, 1756, 10 Ladrones, History of, 1670?, 9 Lavor Evangelica, 1663, 7 Map of Luzon, 11 Mindanao, History of, 1667, 9 Moluccas, Conquest of the, 1609, 26 Orden de Predicadores, La, 1884, 34 Retana’s de Aniterias, 1894, 12 Zúñiga’s Estadismo, 1893, 11 Malabón, Bien-Venida, 1895, 30 Malabóng, Description of Batangas, 1895, 30 Mandaloya, República Filipina, La, 1898, 31 Manila, Almanac and Guide-book with Map of Archipelago, 1834, 24 American Soldier, first periodical in English, 1898, 24 Arte in Pampanga dialect, 1729, 20 Arte of Pellicer, Mariano, 1690, 21 Arte of Pellicer, Mariano, 1862, 21 Book of Devotions in Chamorro idiom, 1887, 22 Catechism in Batanes dialect, 1834, 20 Catechism in Gaddan idiom, 1833, 21 Catecismo, by López, 1877, 20 Christian Doctrine in Cuyona dialect, 1871, 21 Cosmopolita, El, first periodical with phototypes, 1895–1896, 24 Devocion Tagalog, 1610, 31 Diccionario, 1613, 31 Dictionary, by Méntrida, 1637, 18 Dictionary, by Méntrida, 1841, 18 Dictionary by Méntrida, enlarged, 1842, 18 Dictionary in Ilocano dialect, 1849, 20 Dictionary in Ilocano dialect, 1888, 20 Dictionary of Ibanag dialect, 1854, 20 Dictionary of Ibanag dialect, 1867, 21 Dictionary of Pampanga dialect, 1732, 20 Dictionary of Pampanga dialect, 1860, 20 Embriologia Sagrada, 1856, 11 Essay on Tagal grammar, 1878, 19 Estado general, 1886, 11 Fauna of the Philippines, 1895–1896, 10 Flora de Filipinas, 1837, 10 Flora de Filipinas, 1845, 10 Flora de Filipinas, 1877–1883, 4, 10 Grammar in dialect of Guap, 1888, 22 Grammar in dialect of Yap, 1888, 22 History of Province of the Holy Rosary, 1640, 34 History of Religious Missions, 1749, 10 Hogar, El, first women’s paper, 1892, 24 Ilocano, El, first periodical in Indian dialect, 24 Manual, for, Physicians, 1877, 11 Noceda’s Tagal Dictionary, 1860, 28 Pathway to Heaven, 1873, 21 Plan of Religion, 1886, 21 Práctica, 1731, 13 Report on Philippines, by Chirino, 1890, 26 Revista de Filipinas, scientific paper, 1875, 24 Romancero Filipino, 1892, 24 San Agustin’s Treatise on Tagal Poetry, 1879, 20 Superior Gobierno, Del, first newspaper, 1811, 25 Tagal Arte, 1637, 19 Tagal Catechism, 1666, 19 Tagal Catechism, 1880, 19 Tagal Dictionary, 1754, 19 Tagal Dictionary, 1860, 19 Tagal Grammar for Children, 1886, 19 Thé Kon Leche, 1898, 25 Visaya—Spanish, Dictionary, by Encarnación, 1851–1852, 18 Visaya—Spanish, Dictionary, by Encarnación, 1866, 18 Visaya—Spanish, Dictionary, by Encarnación, 1885, 18 Maynila, Manual of Saint Roch, 1820, 28 Revista Católica, 1890, 28 Revista Católica in Tagal, 1896, 28 Mexico, Critical Treatise on Tagalisms, 1742, 19 Triumph of Spanish Arms in Philippines, 1609, 26 Naga, Hand-book of Devotions, 1893, 30 Life of St. Monica and St. Augustine, 1895, 30 Pampanga, Arte by Bergaño, Diego, 1736, 28 Paris, Report on Philippine Islands in Aeta, 1885, 21 Rome, Report on Philippines, by Chirino, 1604, 26 Sampaloc, Almanac, 1838, 28 Arte in Pampanga dialect, 1736, 20 Estadismo de las Filipinas, 1803, 11 History of the Philippines, 1788–1792, 10 Razon, La, 1737, 24 Tagal Arte, 1745, 20 Treatise on Tagal Poetry, 1787, 20 San José de Costa Rica, Nahuatlisms, 1892 22 Seville, Report of Guzman de Tello, Francisco, 1598, 26 Tambóbong, Revista Católica, 1889–1896, 29 Spain, Abridgment of History of, 1897, 29 Tayabas, Tagal Dictionary, 1703, 6, 28 Valladolid, Tagal Dictionary, 1836, 19 Vigan newspaper in Ilocano, 1883–1884, 29

Bornabi, a dialect of Yap, 6

Borneo, 23

Bornese Malay, how far civilized, 8

Bradford, William, introduced printing into Pennsylvania, 1685, 37

Bravo, Felipe, writes encyclopedia, 13

Bugarín, José, Dictionary in Ibanag dialect, 1854 edition, 20 Dictionary of 1630, 37 Dictionary of 1630 not earliest imprint, 34 Dominican linguist, 20 manuscripts of his dictionary, 21

Bulletin, delay in publishing, 3

Burgos, books published at, see Books

Bush Town, meaning of Manila, 28

Buzeta, Manuel, on the blood-bargain by Legazpi, 27 quoted as to Aeta, 7 quoted as to heathen rites, 13 writes Encyclopedia, 13

C

Caboalan dialect, Arte by Pellicer, Mariano, in, 21

Cagayan dialect, otherwise Ibanag, 20 tobacco, 21

Calamiano, 6

Calderón, Felipe, La Corte y Ruano, history of the Marianas, 10

Camarines now known as Naga, 29 see Naga see Nueva Caceres

Cambridge, Mass., printing introduced, 1638, 37

Camisón, Fructuoso Arias, Bien-Venida, by, 30

Capuchin, Ariñez, Agustín María de, 22 missionary, Valencia, Ambrosio de, 22

Carillo, Manuel, Augustinian writer, 10 history of tribes in Luzon, by, 10

Caroline Islands, aided from Manila, 23 Encycl. Brit. quoted on, 6

Carolines, Eastern, dialects used in the, 6

Carro, Andrés, Augustinian scholar, 20 Dictionary in Ilocano dialect, by, 20

Catalogo by Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro, 7

Catechism, in Batanes, of Christian Doctrine, 20 in Gaddan idiom, 21 in Tagal, by Amezquita, Luis de, 29

Catecismo, in Ilocano, by López, Francisco, 20

Caucasians and Satanism, 13

Cavite, books published at, see Books

Cavite, fourth printing-press in Philippines at, 28 suburb of Manila, 28

Cebú, books published at, see Books Cebuano dialect used in, 5 dialects compared with those of Panay, 18 early printing at, described, 29 first Christian Church in Malaysia founded at, 28 first civilized by Legazpi, 29 Legazpi’s Expedition from Mexico to, 1565, 25 ninth printing-press in Philippines at, 29 San Jerónimo, Tomás de, known as the Cicero of, 18

Cebuano dialect or language, 5

Central America, original language used in, 1, 7

Central Americans, kin with Philippinians, 22

Chamorro dialect used in Philippines, 6 idiom of the Marianas Islands, 22 only one book in this idiom, 22

Charm-Book, in Pangasinán, described, 12

China, 23 popularity of Gonzalez de Mendoza’s History of, 25

Chinese language used in Philippines, 6 typographical symbols first shown to Europeans, 25

Chirino, Pedro, a Jesuit writer and scholar, 7, 26 first published work giving Philippine characters, 26 treats on race and language identity of Philippine people, 7

“Christian Doctrine,” by San Jerónimo, Tomás de, 18 explanation of, in Cuyona dialect, 21

Christianity established in Marianas, 9

Church Calendar for 1816 printed at Cavite, 28

Cicero of Cebú, San Jerónimo, Tomás de, known as, 18

Class-books in the Philippines, 17

Clemente, José Patricio, Moral Lectures for youth, 28

Colección, Tagal refrains, described, 20

Colin, Francisco, author of Lavor Evangelica, 7 Jesuit Provincial Superior, and writer, 7

Combés, Francisco, history of Mindanao, Jolo, etc., by, 9 Jesuit writer, 9

Compendium of Lives of the Saints, see Sanctos no Gosagueo

Concepción, Juan de la, History of Philippines by, 10 Recoleto missionary, 10

Confession-Book, 35

Confucians and Saint Nicholas of Tolentine, 29

Conquista of Philippine Islands by San Agustin, 20

Conquistadores, 15

Conquistas in the East, 14

Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, name of first Christian Church in Manila, 28

Cook, Captain, familiar with Philippine dialects, 6

Copia, oldest piece of Philippine literature described, 25

Cosmopolita, El, first periodical published in the islands, 24

Costa Rica, Nahuatlisms of, 22 San José de, books published at, see Books

Crime, statistical report on, 1892, 29

Critical Treatise on Tagalisms, described, 19

Cronaca del Orden quoted, 27

Cuadrado, Mariano Martínez, Franciscan linguist, 20

Cuartero, Mariano, Dominican bishop at Jaro in Island of Panay, 21

Curios, Literary, among Philippina, 8, 24

Cuyono dialect, description of two works in, 21 dialect or language, 5

D

D’almonte y Muriel, Enrique, map of Luzon by, 11

De Sanvitores, see Sanvitores

Devocion Tagalog, from press of Pinpin, Tomás, 31

Devotions, Handbook of, 1893, 30

Diccionario, by Mentrida, 6 from press of Pinpin, Tomás, 31

Diez, Esteban, Augustinian missionary, 28

Devotions to St. Roch in Tagal, by, 28 skilled Tagalist, 28

Discourses on Aromatic Things, by Fragoso, 26

Dominican: Blancas de San José, Francisco, 32 Francisco de S. Joseph, otherwise, known, as Blancas, 32, 36 Martínez-Vigil, Father, 34 Payo, Pedro, Archbishop of Manila, 11 Pellicer, Mariano, 21 Salazar, Domingo, 23 Bishop, Cuartero, Marino, 21 linguist, Bugarín, José, 20 manuscripts on Ibanag dialect, 21 missionary, Aduarte, Diego, 34 author of Catechism in Gaddan idiom, 21 author, of, Pathway, to Heaven in Gaddan idiom, 21 Lafuente, Casimiro, 12 wrote only work in Batanes dialect, 20 zoologist, Elera, Casto de, 10

Dominicans furnished early printers, 36 one hundred in Retana’s Catalogue, 23

Dominicans settled in Philippines in 1581, 23 worked in islets north of Luzon, 20

Dresden, books published at, see Books

Duendes, described by Zúñiga, 13

E

Easter Island, language used in, 7

Ecclesiastics, four hundred and sixty-six in Retana’s Catalogue, 22

Eco de Vigan, El, Sunday newspaper started at Lalo, called, 29

Egongot dialect or language, 6

Elera, Casto de, Fauna of Philippines, by, 10

Embriologia Sagrada, by Sanz Gregorio, described, 11

Encarnación, Juan Félix de la, Augustinian scholar, 18 Visaya—Spanish Dictionary by, 18

Encyclopædia Britannica, Article quoted, 6

Encyclopedia of Buzeta and Bravo described, 13

Ensayo para una Galería de Asturianos ilustres, by Rodríguez, 29

Estadismo, as to origin of name of Marianas, 9 by Zúñiga quoted, 7, 13, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37 compared with Thwaites’ Relations of Jesuits in North America, 15 de las Filipinas o mis viajes, described, 11

Estado General, by Payo, described, 11 Malabón, quoted, 30

Estremadura, Governor Sande founds Nueva Caceres in memory of, 30

Ezquerra, Domingo, first grammar in Leite language by, 18 Jesuit missionary, 18

F

Fauna of Philippines by Castro de Elera, 10

Ferraz, Juan Fernández, Nahuatlisms of Costa Rica, 22

Figuerroa, Antonio, Franciscan traveler, 18

Filipinas, Flora de, described, 4 see Philippines

Finding Lists of The Free Library, 3

Fireside, The, see Hogar, El

Fleuri, Claudio, Abridgment, of Christian Doctrine by, 29

Flora de Filipinas, described, 4 in Free Library, 4 monumental work, 10

Folk-lore in Philippines, 12

Four Great Last Truths, see Postrimerias, 35

Fragoso, Juan, Discourses on Aromatic Things, by, 25, 26

Franciscan antiquarian, Huerta, Félix de, 31 chronicler, Ribadeneyra, Marcelo de, 26 Convent of Our Lady of Loreto, 28 linguist, Cuadrado, Mariano Martínez, 20 Martín Gregorio, 20 Oyanguren, Melchior, 19 missionary, Totanes, Sebastián de, 20, 28 traveler, Figuerroa, Antonio, 18

Franciscans, fifty-six in Retana’s Catalogue, 23 Province of St. Gregory the Great, 32 settled in Philippines in 1577, 23

Francisco de S. Joseph, see Blancas, 32

Free Library of Philadelphia, The, 3 its Finding Lists, 3

Friars civilized the Philippines, 23

Friendly Islands, language used in, 7

Funopet, a dialect of Yap, 6

G

Gaddan dialect or language 5 only two books in, 21

Geology of Philippines by Baranda, 11

Gibert de Santa Eulalia, see Santa Eulalia

Goa, 23

Gobierno Dictatorial de Filipinas, last imprint of Cavite entitled, 28

Gómez de la Serna, Madam Amparo, 24

Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan, Augustinian traveler, 25 popularity of History of China by, 25

Grijalva, Augustinian chronicler, 27

Guadalupe, books published at, see Books description of village of, 29 eighth printing-press in Philippines at, 29 works published at, 29

Guap, dialects used in, 6 grammar in dialect of, 22

Guide-Book, the first in Philippines, 24

Guzman de Tello, Francisco, eleventh Captain-General of Philippines, 26 report as Governor and Captain-General, 26

H

Hacienda of Augustinians at Mandaloya, 31

Haraya a chief dialect in Panay, 18 vocabulary of, by Méntrida, 10

Harayo dialect or language, 5

Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo, author of Catalogo, 7 Jesuit writer, 7 quoted, 7

Hiligayno a chief dialect in Panay, 5, 18 vocabulary of, by Méntrida, 18

Hiligueina, otherwise, Hiligayno, which see, 18

Hispano-Kanaka Dictionary, by Ariñez, Agustín Maria de, 22

Historia Franciscana quoted, 19

Hogar, El, first women’s paper, 24

“Holy Child, The,” first Christian Church founded at Cebú, now called, 28

Hospitallers, Province of St Raphael Archangel, 32

Huerta, Félix de, early Manila imprints described by, 31 Franciscan antiquarian, 31

I

Ibanag dialect or language, 5 Ave Maria in, 20 Dictionary by Bugarín, José, in, 20 in, another, 21 hardest of all Philippine tongues 20

Ibanay dialect, otherwise Ibanag, 20

Ibáñez del Carmen, Aniceto, book of devotions in Chamorro idiom, by, 22 Recoleto linguist, 22

Igorrotes, difficulty of conversion of, 10

Ilocano, a dialect of Luzon, 5, 20 Ave Maria in, 20 Catecismo in, 20 Dictionary in, 20 newspaper published in, 29

Ilocano, El, first periodical in Indian dialect, 1889–1896, 24

Ilocos, Indians of hill-country of, 10

Iloilo, books published at, see Books seventh printing-press in Philippines at, 29

Ilongote, 6

Imus, books published at, see Books only one imprint, 31 revolutionary press established at 31 thirteenth printing-press in Philippines at, 31

India, Portuguese introduce Christianity into, 23

Indian plant-lore, 11 schools described, 17

Indians, hand-books of devotion for the, 35

Introduction of printing into Philippines, 8, 32

Introductory, 5

Isinay dialect or language, 5

Isle of Batanes, see Batanes Cebú, see Cebú Luzon, see Luzon Mindanao, see Mindanao Negros, see Negros Panay, see Panay Parayna, see Parayna Vatanes, see Vatanes

Ita a form of word Aeta, 21

Itaa a form of word Aeta, 21

J

Japan, Christianity introduced into, 23 Jesuit mission press in, quoted, 35 Retana maintains first printing outfit was from, 35 Sanctos no Gosagueo printed at Katsusa, 1591, 35 ten works printed in Roman characters before 1599, 35 Vocabulario de Japón printed, 1603, 35

Japanese language used in Philippines, 6

Jaro, Arrué, Alejandro, bishop of St. Isabel, of, 29 Cuartero, Mariano, first bishop of St. Isabel, of, 21 St. Isabel, otherwise St. Elizabeth, of, 29

Javan, how far civilized, 8

Javanese language used in Philippines, 6

Jesuit college at Katsusa, 35 at Nangasaki, 35 mission press in Japan quoted, 35 missionaries prepare Spanish-Japanese Dictionary, 27 missionary, Ezquerra, Domingo, 18 Noceda, Juan de, 19 scholar and writer, Chirino, Pedro, 7, 26 Colin, Francisco, 7 Hervás y Panduro, 7 Sanvitores, Diego Luis de, 9 Velarde, Pedro Murillo, 9

Jesuits came with Dominicans, 1581, 23 in Retana’s Catalogue, 57, 23 opened first college in Philippines, 1601, 17 Relations of the, by Thwaites, 15

Jesus, Augustinians of Province of Most Holy Name of, 22

Jolo, history of, by Combés, 8

Joloano dialect or language, 5

K

Kanaka dialect used in Philippines 6

Katsusa, Jesuit College at, 35

Kavite, see Cavite

Kern, H., comparative study of Aeta language, by, 22

L

Lacandola, the rajah of Manila, 27 part taken in founding of Manila by, 27

Ladrone Islands, oldest history of, 9

Ladrones, dialects used in the, 6

Lafuente, Casimiro, cure at Santa Barbara in Pangasinán, 12 Dominican missionary, 12 pagan scapularies shown to Retana by, 12

Lal-lo, see Lalo

Lalo, Sunday newspaper in Ilocano published at, 29 Vigan now known as, 29

Lavor Evangelica, 7

Legazpi, Miguel López de, 23 and the blood-bargain, see Buzeta first civilized Cebú, 29 his expedition from Mexico to Cebú, 1565, 25 site of Manila projected by, 27 took St. Michael as his name-saint 28

Leite, Arte of Visaya idiom used in, described, 18 dialect or language, 5 first grammar of language of, 18 idiom similar to Cebuano, 18

Leonardo de Argensola, Bartolomé, Presbyter, 26

Leyes de las Indias, Indian schools zealously guarded by, 17

Leyte, see Leite

Lippincott Co., J. B., loss of manuscript by, 3

Literary curios among Philippina, 8, 24

London, books published at, see Books

López, Francisco, Augustinian, 20 Catecismo in Ilocano dialect by, 20

Lozano, Raimundo, Novena to St. Thomas of Villanova by, 29

Lubao, art-establishment of Augustinians at, 36 Convent, books printed at, in Pampanga, 37 books printed at, in Spanish, 37 books printed at, in Tagal, 37 San Agustín, Gaspar de, quoted, 37 discussion when printing-press started, 37 tratadillos of 1606, 37

Luzon, abominable rites in, 13 death of Ortiz, Tomás, at, 13 dialect used in, 6 Isle of, 5, 6 its anay or book-destroying ant, 19 map of, by D’Almonte y Muriel, 11 personal experiences of Retana in, 12 printing-presses established at isle of, 31 see Pampanga tribes hardest to convert in, 10

M

Macabebe, printing-press established, 1621, 31

Madagascar, dialects used in, 6 language used in, 7

Madrid, books published at, see Books

Magaurlua, Jacinto, prints first Spanish-Japanese Dictionary, 27

Malabón, books published at, see Books description of works printed at, 30 Orphanage for boys, 30 list of trades taught at, 30 managed by Augustinians, 30 Report quoted, 30 press-work criticised, 30 see Tambóbong twelfth printing-press in Philippines at, 30

Malabóng, books, published, at, see Books see Malabón written for Tambóbong 30

Malagasy dialect used in Philippines, 6

Malay language, origin of, 6 races, how far civilized, 8

Malays, opinions as to identity of, with Papuans, 7

Malaysia, antiquities, and, characteristics of, 8 did not adopt coeducational theory, 18 first civilization of, at Cebú, 29 first two Christian churches in, 28 many dialects of, 5 many works of recognized merit in, 7 men of shining mark not turned out in, 17 printing introduced fifty years earlier than in Pennsylvania, 37 provinces of friars in, 32 works of reference bearing on, 8

Malaysian typography in History of Province of the Holy Rosary, 34

Malaysians and Satanism, 13

Malgacho dialect used in Philippines, 6

Mandaloya an old hacienda of Augustinians, 31 books published at, see Books fourteenth printing-press in Philippines at, 31 Orphanage for girls, 30 list of arts, etc., taught at, 30 managed by Augustinians, 30 Report quoted, 30

Mandaloyon, otherwise Mandaloya, 31 see Mandaloya

Manila a Tagal word, 27 books published at, see Books Cuartero, Mariano, one of the four suffragans of, 21 dean of cathedral-chapter of, 33 different spellings of, 27 eight church officers of, 33 Flora de Filipinas published at, 4 its influence, 23 Lacandola was Rajah of, 27 license to print Blancas’ Arte, dated from, 33 means Bush Town, 28 Payo, Pedro, Dominican archbishop of, 11 printing-press established 1630, 27 Salazar, Domingo, first bishop of, 23 San Agustín, Gaspar de, died at, 36 second Christian church in Malaysia founded at, 28 see Guadalupe see Maynila see Tambóbong site of projected by Legazpi, 27 taken by Spanish, 27

Manobo dialect or language, 5 first vocabulary in, 22

Manual for administration of the Sacraments, by Totanes, 20 of Devotions to St. Roch, in Tagal, 28

Manuals of piety, in the Philippines, 17

Map of Archipelago, the first with almanac, 24 of the Philippines, by Velarde, 10

Mariana of Austria, Marianas Islands named after, 9

Marianas Islands, Calderón’s history of, 10 Chamorro the idiom of the, 22 dialects used in the, 6 establishment of Christianity in, 9 so named by Sanvitores, 9

Marquesas Isles, language used in, 7

Martín, Gregorio, Franciscan linguist, 20

Martín, Julián, Augustinian missionary, 18

Martínez, Vigil, Ramón, a resident at Manila, 36 as to earliest Philippine imprints, 36 Dominican, bishop of Oviedo, 34

Matandá, part taken in founding of Manila by, 27

Maver, John, his translation of Zúñiga’s Estadismo, 11 now out of print, 15

Maynila, books published at, see Books

Mediquillo, manual of, 11

Memorial of the Christian Life, 35

Méntrida, Alonso de, Arte and Diccionario by, 5 Augustinian scholar, 18 Dictionary by, 18

Mercado, Ignacio, Philippine botanist, 10

Mexico, books published at, see Books to Cebú, 1565, by Legazpi, 25

Meyer, A. B., Aeta vocabulary by, 22

Meztizos, Spaniard or Chinese mixed with native, 12

Middleton, Thomas Cooke, paper by, 3 paper re-written by, 3 vicissitudes of his paper, 3

Mindanao, Isle of, dialect used in, 5, 6 history of, by Combés, 9 natives of, use Manobo dialect, 22

Minguella de la Merced, Toribio, Recoleto missionary, 19

Moluccas, 23 Leonardo de Argensola’s, Bartolomé, conquest of the, 26

Montano, J., report on Philippine Islands, in, 21 vocabularies of various native dialects, by, 22

Morga, Antonio de, triumph of Spanish arms in Philippines, 26

Moro, Maguindanáo dialect, 5

Museo Biblioteca de Ultramar, Retana’s account of early Philippine imprint in, 32

Mysteries of the Rosary, 35

N

Naga, books published at, see Books the eleventh printing-press in Philippines at, 29

Nahuatl language used in Philippines, 6

Nahuatlisms of Costa Rica, by Ferraz, Juan Fernández, 22

Nangasaki, Vocabulario de Japón, printed at, 1603, 35

Naves, Andres, 4

Negrito dialect or language, 5 a parent tongue, 7

Negritos perhaps primitive race of the Philippines, 21 used Aeta language, 21

Negroes of Negros described, 19

Negros, Aetas of, described, 19 Isle of, dialect, 5

New Guinea vocabulary and Captain Cook, 6

New Hebrides vocabulary and Captain Cook, 6

New Holland vocabulary and Captain Cook, 6

New Zealand vocabulary and Captain Cook, 6

Noceda, Juan de, Jesuit missionary, 19 Tagal Dictionary by, 19 Tagal Dictionary was added to by Augustinians, 28 Totanes’ Tagal dictionary superseded by that of, 28

Nonos, described by Zúñiga, 13

Novena to St. Thomas of Villanova, by Lozano, 29

Nueva Caceres, founded by Governor Sande, Francisco, 29 now known as Naga, 29, 30 see, Naga

Nuéva Segovia, Santa Eulalia, Pedro Gibert de, Recoleto bishop of, 21 Vigan known to Spaniards as, 29

O

Orden de Predicadores, La, History of, 34

Orders not specified in Retana’s Catalogue, 14, 23

Orphanage at Malabón, list of trades taught, 30 at Mandaloya, list of arts, etc., taught, 30

Ortiz, Tomás, Augustinian missionary, 13 death of, 1742, 13 on abominable rites in Philippines, 13

Our Lady of Consolation, a Tambóbong printing centre, 29 orphan-press of, 30

Our Lady of Loreto, Franciscan Convent of, 28

Our Lady of the Rosary, Fr. Francisco Blancas de San José, preacher-general of province of, 32

Our Lady of Welcome, 30

Oviedo in Spain, Martínez-Vigil, bishop of, 34

Oyanguren, Melchior, Franciscan linguist, 19 his Critical Treatise on Tagalisms described, 19

P

Pacto de Sangre, rite of, described, 27

Pag-Papasipin, described by Zúñiga, 13

Pampanga, art establishment of Augustinians at Lubao, 36 dialect, Arte by Bergaño, Diego, in, 20 books in, printed at Lubao, 37 published at, see Books Dictionary of, by Bergaño, Diego, 20 province in Luzon, 36

Pampango dialect or language, 5

Panapee, a dialect of Yap, 6

Panay, Cuartero, Mariano, first bishop of St. Isabel of Jaro in island of, 21 dialect or language, 5 Dictionary of chief dialects spoken in, 18 see Iloilo

Panayano dialect or language, 5

Pangasinán, Arte by Pellicer, Mariano, in, 21 Charm-Book, in, described, 12 dialect or language, 5 Indians of hill-country of, 10 Lafuente, Casimiro, cure at Santa Barbara in, 12

Papuan language, a parent tongue, 7 antiquity of, 6

Papuans, opinions on identity of, 7

Paragua, Isle of, 5

Paris, books published at, see Books

Pathway to Heaven in Gaddan idiom, 21

Patianac, described by Zúñiga, 13

Payo, Pedro, a Dominican archbishop of Manila, 11 Estado general, or statistics of Philippines by, 11

Pellicer, Mariano, Arte in Pangasinán dialect by, 21 Dominican, 21

Pennsylvania, printing introduced, 1685, 37

Pérez, Mateo, Abridgment of Christian Doctrine, in Bisaya, 29 Augustinian cure of Argao, 29

Philadelphia, Philobiblon Club of, 3 The Free Library of, 3, 4 its Finding lists, 3

Philippina, historical character of earliest, 25 literary curios among, 8, 24

Philippine archipelago conquered, 1565, 23 characters, diagrams of, first published, 26 dialects, and Capt. Cook, 6 some authorities on, 8, 16

Philippines, Aeta a mother tongue in, 7 bibliography of, 5 Blanco’s Flora of, 10 books in Free Library, 3, 4 Concepción’s history of, 10 Fauna of, by Elera, 10 first printing outfit from Japan, 35 first publication discussed, 25 folk-lore in, 12 geology of, 11 historical geography of, by Velarde, 10 introduction of printing into, 8, 32 languages enumerated, 5, 6 manuscript history of, 1581–1606, described, 36 map of, 10 Martínez-Vigil states order of St. Augustine furnished first printers to, 36 most valuable works on, 9 periodicals, one hundred and sixty, 25 printing-presses in, 8, 27 religious missions in, 10 Retana’s catalogue of Philippine literature, 3 list of early presses, 31 list of printers, 31 rites, etc., of aborigines of, 13 sources of information concerning, 8 statistics relating to, 11 surviving forms of heathenism in, 12 total number of islands unknown, 7 Velarde published earliest topographical map of, 10 Vera, Juan de, first printer in, 35 works of reference bearing on, 8

Philippinians, how far civilized, 8 kin with Central Americans, 22

Philobiblon Club, paper read before, 3

Pinpin, Tomás, a native Tagal printer, 27, 31 alleged printer of Arte y Reglas, 33 Devocion Tagalog, printed by, 21 Diccionario printed by, 31 first Spanish-Japanese Dictionary printed by, 27 Retana authority for work printed at Binondo, by, 28

Polynesia, history of, by Combés, 9 its early civilization, 23 languages in Western, 6 many languages used in, 22

Polynesians, rites practised among, 13

Ponapé, a dialect of Yap, 6 used in Philippines, 6

Portuguese missionaries, 23

Postrimerias, 35

Pouguet, Abridgment of Christian Doctrine, by “francés” [= Frenchmen], 29

Práctica, omitted in Biblioteca, 13 Ortiz describes impious rites in Philippines, 13

Preface, 3

Preparation for Communion, 35

Presbyter, Leonardo de Argensola, Bartolomé, 26

Presses, Philippine, 8, 27

Printing, introduction of, into Philippines 8, 32

Printing-press, authorities on introduction of, 36

Printing-press established at: Bacolor, 1619, 31 Bataan before 1610, 34 Binondo, 1865, 28 Camarines, otherwise Nueva Caceres, 1893, 29 Cavite, 1815, 28 Cebú, 1888, 29 Guadalupe, 1886, 29 Iloilo, 1885, 29 Imus, 1896, 31 Lubao before 1606, 37 Luzon, 31 Macabebe, 1621, 31 Malabón, 1895, 30 Malaysia, 37 Mandaloya, otherwise Mandaloyon, 1898, 31 Mandaloyon, otherwise Mandaloya, 1898, 31 Manila, 1630, 27 Nueva Caceres, otherwise Camarines, 1893, 29 Philippines, 8, 27 Sampaloc, 1736, 28 Tambóbong, 1889, 29 Tayabas, 1703, 28, 31 Vigan, 1883, 29 Visayas, 29

Proclamation in Tagal printed at Imus, 31

Puynipet, a dialect of Yap, 6

Q

Quiapo, license to print Blancas’ Arte dated from, 33

R

Razon, La, A Plea Against Encroachments on Mexican and Manila Trade, 24

Reclus, Elisée, quoted as to Philippine civilization, 23

Recoleto bishop, Arrué, Alejandro, 29 Santa Eulalia, Pedro Gibert de, 21 evangelist, Vilches, Manuel, 11 linguist, Ibáñez del Carmen, Aniceto, 22 missionaries first crossed the Pacific in 1611, 23 missionary, Concepción, Juan de la, 10 missionary, Minguella de la Merced, Toribio, 19 Santa Eulalia, Pedro Gibert de, 21 Sanz, Gregorio, 11 scholar, San Jerónimo, Tomás de, 18

Recoletos are the barefooted Augustinians, 23 Province of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, 32 thirty-seven in Retana’s Catalogue, 23

Reference, works of, referred to, 8

Relations of the Jesuits in North America compared with Estadismo, 15

Religious brotherhoods, three hundred and sixty-eight members in Retana’s Catalogue, 22

República Filipino, La, described, 31 first journal of Tagal insurgents, 31

Retana, W. E., annals of religious brotherhoods, 14 announces Dictionary in Batanes, 20 best works in Visaya or Bisaya described, 18 bibliography by, 5 Biblioteca, quoted, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22, 25, 31, 32 contradictory statements as to earliest Philippine imprint by, 32 edits Zúñiga’s Estadismo, 11 enumerates one hundred and twelve of one hundred and sixty periodicals, 25 forms of heathenism described by, 12 gifted student of Philippina, 7 his enlarged Estadismo quoted, 7, 13, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37 idioms of Malaysia tabulated by, 5 infers that Spanish-Japanese Dictionary is earliest Philippine imprint, 32 list of early presses and names of printers, 31 most valuable authorities named by, 9 omission of early Philippine imprints from later bibliography of, 31 omits Práctica in Biblioteca, 13 on Bataan imprints, 34 Buzeta, 14 Chirino, 26 Concepción’s history of the Philippines, 10 Dictionary of Ibanag dialect, 20 Elera’s catalogue of fauna, 11 Embriologia Sagrada, 11 first Philippine book, 25 Hispano-Kanaka Dictionary, 22 manual for Mediquillo, 11 map of Luzon, 11 printer of Arte y Reglas, 33 printing in Cebú, 29 question of early typography, 34 Romancero Filipino, 24 statements of Aduarte, 35 Vilches’ Manual, 11 personal experiences in Luzon, 12 quotes Museo Biblioteca de Ultramar, 32 reference made to Philippine prints not mentioned in Biblioteca, 31 religious books mentioned by, 16 says few books in Cuyona, 21 short catalogue by, 3 shown pagan scapularies by Lafuente, 12 writes appendices to Zúñiga’s history, 12

Revista Católica, one number published, 1890, 28 in Tagal, 1896, 28

Revista Católica de Filipinas, of Tambóbong, 29

Revista de Filipinas, scientific paper, 24

Ribadeneyra, Marcelo de, Franciscan chronicler, 26 history of Philippine archipelago by, 26

Rodríguez, Fabiáno, Augustinian antiquary, 29 genealogical work by, 29

Rojas, Pedro de, secretary of cathedral-chapter of Manila, 33

Romancero Filipino, work of fancy, 24

Rome, books published at, see Books

Ruiz, Miguel, of Binondoc and Arte of 1610, 33

S

Sacraments, Manual for administration of, by Totanes, 20

Sagrada Familia, hand-book of devotions from press of, 30

Saint Augustine, the friars of, 4

Saint Elizabeth of Jaro, Cuartero, Mariano, first bishop of, 21

Saint Gregory the Great, Franciscans of Province of, 32

Saint Isabel of Jaro, Cuartero, Mariano, first bishop of, 21

Saint Roch, Manual of Devotions to, 28

Salazar, Domingo, Dominican, 23 first bishop of Manila, 23

Salcedo, Juan, captain under Legazpi, 29 Vigan founded by, 29

Sámal dialect or language, 6 first vocabulary in, 22

Sámar Isles, Arte of Visaya idiom used in, described, 18 dialect or language, 5

Sampaloc, books published at, see Books second printing-press in Philippines at, 28

San Agustín, Gaspar de, Augustinian, 20 biographical note on, 36 Conquista by, 20 quoted, 36 Tagal linguist, 36 treatise on Tagal poetry by, 20 Gaspar de, Visaya linguist, 36

San Jerónimo, Tomás de, known as the “Cicero of Cuba”, 18 Recoleto scholar, 18

San José de Costa Rica, books published at, see, Books

San José, Francisco, see, Blancas

Sanctos no Gosagueo, printed in Japan, 1591, 35

Sande, Francisco, founded, Nueva Caceres., 30 Governor, 30

Sandwich Islands, language used in, 7

Sanscrit language used in Philippines, 6

Santa, Barbara, Lafuente, Casimiro, cure at pueblo of, 12

Santa Eulalia, Pedro Gibert de, Christian Doctrine in Cuyona dialect by, 21 Plan of Religion in Cuyona dialect by, 21 Recoleto bishop of Nuéva Segovia, 21 missionary, 21

Santo Niño, El, name of first Christian Church in Cebú, 28

Santos’ Tagal Dictionary, 6

Sanvitores, Diego, Luis, de, called Ladrone Islands the Marianas, 9 Jesuit writer, 9

Sanz, Gregorio, a Recoleto missionary, 11

Sastrón, Manuel, description of Batangas, 30 use of “Malabóng” by, 30

Satanism in Polynesia, 13

Satow, Ernest Mason, quoted, 35

Schools, description of Indian, 17

Secular clergyman in Retana’s catalogue, ninety-eight, 22

Seville, books published at, see, Books

Sicatuna, Chief, made, blood-bargain with Legazpi, 27

Society Isles, language used in, 7

Soliman, part taken in founding of Manila by, 27

South Sea islanders, Captain Cook and languages of, 6

Spain, Abridgment of History of, at Tambóbong, 29 Queen of, Doña Mariana of Austria, 9

Spanish, books in, printed at Lubao, 37

Spanish-Japanese Dictionary by Pinpin and Magaurlua, 27 mistakenly styled earliest Philippine imprint, 25 Retana states earliest Philippine imprint to be, 32

Statistical reports of Franciscan missionaries, 28

Saint Augustine and Saint Monica, Life of, 30 Gabriel, Hospital of, at Binondo, Retana authority for work printed by Pinpin at, 28 Michael, Archangel, Church rechristened the Holy Child, 28 name of, first Christian Church in Cebú, 28 name-saint of Legazpi, 28 Monica and Saint Augustine, Life of, 30 Nicholas, of Tolentino, Guadalupe founded in honor of, 29 see Tolentino Raphael Archangel, Hospitallers of Province of, 32 Thomas, of Villanova, Novena to, 29

Suárez, Francisco, cover of La Razon illustrated by, 24

Sumatran, The, how far civilized, 8

Superior Gobierno, Del, first newspaper in the Islands, 25

T

Tagacaolo dialect or language, 6 first vocabulary in, 22

Tagal dialect or language, 5 Arte by Totanes described, 20 not forerunner of Philippine imprints, 35 the earliest, described, 19 artist, Suárez Francisco, 24 best book to learn language from, 19 books in, printed at Lubao, 37 Catechism by Amezquita, Luis de, 19, 29 dialect, hard to acquire, 18 Dictionary by Noceda described, 19 by Santos, 6 by Totanes, 28 Grammar, 1610, 32 best is by Totanes, 20 Essay on, by Minguella de la Merced, 19 same as Arte y Reglas, 33 Hymn in, Arte y Reglas, 33 insurgents, first journal of the, 31 linguist, San Agustín, Gaspar de, 36 Manual for the administration of the Sacraments in, 20 poetry, San Agustín’s treatise on, 19 Prayer in, Arte y Reglas, 33 printer, Pinpin, Tomás, 31 proclamation in, published at, 31 refrains, by Martin and Cuadrado, described, 20 see Araya, 36 translation of Tissot’s work into, 10 works in, described, 19

Tagalisms, Critical Treatise on, described, 19

Tagbanúa dialect or language, 5

Tambóbong, books published at, see Books Hispano-Kanaka Dictionary, 1892, 22 otherwise Malabón, 30 see Malabóng tenth printing-press in Philippines at, 29 works printed at, 29

Tasig river, 29

Tayabas, books published at, see Books only one book with this imprint, 28 printing-press established 1703, 31 Tagal Dictionary printed at, 6 third printing-press in Philippines at, 28

Tea and Milk, see Thé Kon Leche

Thé Kon Leche, illustrated satirical periodical, 25

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 15

Tigbalag, described by Zúñiga, 13

Tinguianes, difficulty of conversion of, 10

Tino dialect or language, 5

Tiruray dialect or language, 5

Tissot, Blanco translates work of, into Tagal, 10

Tobacco in Cagayan region, 21

Tolentino, Recoletos of Province of St. Nicholas of, 32 Saint Nicholas the wonder-worker of, 29

Tondo province, see Tambóbong, 29 San Agustín, Gaspar de, died at, 36

Totanes, Sebastián de, Franciscan missionary, 20, 28 his Tagal Dictionary published at Tayabas, 28 Manual by, 20 Tagal Arte by, 20

Tratadillos by Villanueva, Juan de, 36 of 1606 printed at Lubao, 37

Treatise on the Drugs and Medicines used in the East Indies, 26

Tupas, Chief at Cebú, 1565, 28 Cross reared at Cebú by agreement with, 28

V

Valencia, Ambrosio de, Capuchin missionary, 22 Grammar in dialect of Yap, or Guap, supposed to be by, 22

Valladolid, books published at, see Books

Vatanes, Isle of, dialect or language, 5 used in islets north of Luzon, 20 see Batanes

Velarde, Pedro Murillo, earliest topographical map of Philippines by, 10 Historical geography of Philippines, 10 Jesuit writer, 9

Vera, Juan de, assisted Blancas, 35 books printed, Binondo, 35 Christian Chinaman, 35 first printer in Philippines, 35 titles of books printed by, 35

Vícol dialect or language, 5

Vidal, Domingo, original editor of Flora, 4

Vidal y Soler, Sebastián, later editor of Flora, 4

Vigan, books published at, see Books founded by Juan Salcedo, 29 sixth printing-press in Philippines at, 29 various names of, 29

Vilches, Manuel, book on Indian plant-lore published by, 11 Recoleto evangelist, 11

Villa Fernandina, Vigan known as, 29

Villanova, Novena to St Thomas of, 29

Villanueva, Juan de, Augustinian, 36 Tratadillos by, 36

Villar, Celestino Fernández, 4

Villavicencio, José Nuño de, La Razon by, 24

Virgin Mary, Marianas Islands named for, 9 Tagal Hymn to the Holy, 33

Visaya, Arte written in, described, 18 best works for the study of, described, 18 first dialect in the Philippines, 18 generic name, 5 linguist, San Agustín, Gaspar de, 36 Spanish Dictionary by Encarnación described, 18

Visaya-Cebuano dialect, book on Indian plant-lore published in, 11 Christian Doctrine translated into, 18 compared with Panay dialects, 18

Visayas, dearth of printing-press material, 29

Vocabulario de Japón, printed in “Nangasaki,” 1603, 35

W

Wallace, on identity of Polynesians, 7

Wisconsin, State Historical Society of, 15

Works of general information, 8, 9

Y

Yap, dialect or language, 6 dialects used in, 6 Grammar in dialect of, 22

Z

Zambale dialect or language, 5

Zúñiga, Joaquin Martínez de, abominable rites practised in Luzon, 13 Augustinian, 9, 11 Estadismo de las Filipinas of, 11, 12 on Arte y Reglas, 1610, 33 on earliest Philippine imprint, 32 quoted, 6, 9, 19, 27, 31, 34, 37 Retana writes appendices to history by, 12 see Estadismo states Aeta is parent tongue of Polynesia, 6, 7

Table of Contents

- Preface.     3
- Introductory.     5
- Works of General Information.     9
- Authorities on Philippine Dialects.     16

- Some Literary Curios among Philippina.     24

- Philippine Presses.     27

- Introduction of Printing into the Philippines.     32

- Index     39

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Table of Contents

- Preface.

- Introductory.

- I. Works of General Information.

- II. Authorities on Philippine Dialects.

- III. Some Literary Curios among Philippina.

- IV. Philippine Presses.

- V. Introduction of Printing into the Philippines.

- Index

- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z

- Table of Contents

- Colophon

- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections

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