The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803

ӐThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1803

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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803
Author: Emma Helen Blair
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Language: English
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century
Volume I, 1493-1529

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.

Contents of Volume I
General Preface. The Editors. ... 13 Historical Introduction. _Edward Gaylord Bourne._ ... 19 Preface to Volume I ... 89 Documents regarding the Line of Demarcation:
Papal Bulls of 1493: _Inter c?tera_ (May 3), _Eximi?_ (May 3), _Inter c?tera_ (May 4), Extension de la concesion (September 25). Alexander?VI; Rome, 1493. ... 97 Treaty of Tordesillas. Fernando?V and Isabel of Castile, and Jo?o?II of Portugal; Tordesillas, June 7, 1494. ... 115 [Note on correspondence of Jaime Ferrer regarding the Line of Demarcation--1493-95.] 130 Compact between the Catholic Sovereigns and the King of Portugal. Fernando?V and Isabel of Castile, and Jo?o?II of Portugal; Madrid, April 15, 1495. 131 Papal Bull, _Pr?cels?_ Leo?X; Rome, November 3, 1514. 136 Instructions from the King of Spain to his ambassadors. Cárlos I of Spain; Valladolid, February 4, 1523. 139 Letter to Juan de Zú?iga. Cárlos?I of Spain; Pamplona, December 18, 1523. 145 Treaty of Vitoria. Cárlos?I of Spain, and Jo?o?III of Portugal; Vitoria, February 19, 1524 Junta of Badajoz: extract from the records in the possession and ownership of the Moluccas. Badajoz; April 14-May 13, 1524
Opinions concerning the ownership of the Moluccas. Hernando Colon, Fray Tomás Duran, Sebastian Caboto, and Juan Vespucci; Badajoz April 13-15, 1524 Letters to the Spanish delegates at the Junta of Badajoz. Cárlos?I of Spain; Búrgos, March 21 and April 10, 1524
Treaty of Zaragoza. Cárlos?I of Spain and Jo?o?III of Portugal; Zaragoza, April 29, 1529
Papal Bull, _Eximi?_. Alexander?VI; Rome, November 16, 1501 Life and Voyage of Fern?o de Magalh?es.
[Résumé of contemporaneous documents--1518-27.] Letter of authorization to Falero and Magalh?es. Cárlos?I of Spain; Valladolid, March 22, 1518 Carta de el-rei de Castella para El-rei D. Manuel. Cárlos?I of Spain; Barcelona, February 28, 1519 Instructions to Juan de Cartagena. Cárlos?I of Spain; Barcelona, April 6, 1519 [1]Carta do rei de Castella a Fernando de Magalh?es e a Ruy Falero. Cárlos?I; Barcelona, April 19, 1519 ... 294 Extracto de una carta de las Indias. 1522. ... 296 De Molvccis Insulis. [Letter to the Cardinal of Salzburg, describing Magalh?es's voyage to the Moluccas.] Maximillianus Transylvanus; Coloni?, 1523. ... 305
Bibliographical Data ... 339 Appendix: Chronological Tables ... 345

Illustrations
Portrait of Fern?o de Magalh?es; photographic reproduction from painting in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid. ... Frontispiece Signature of Fern?o de Magalh?es; photographic facsimile, from original Ms. in Archivo General de Indias, Seville. ... 273 Title-page of _De Molvccis Insulis_; photographic facsimile, from copy of the first edition, at Lenox Library. ... 303 General map of the Philippine Archipelago. ... At end of volume

General Preface
The entrance of the United States of America into the arena of world-politics, the introduction of American influence into Oriental affairs, and the establishment of American authority in the Philippine archipelago, all render the history of those islands and their, numerous peoples a topic of engrossing interest and importance to the reading public, and especially to scholars, historians, and statesmen. The present work--its material carefully selected and arranged from a vast mass of printed works and unpublished manuscripts--is offered to the public with the intention and hope of casting light on the great problems which confront the American people in the Philippines; and of furnishing authentic and trustworthy material for a thorough and scholarly history of the islands. For this purpose, the Editors reproduce (mainly in English translation) contemporaneous documents which constitute the best original sources of Philippine history. Beginning with Pope Alexander?VI's line of demarcation between the Spanish and the Portuguese dominions in the New World (1493), the course of history in the archipelago is thus traced through a period of more than three centuries, comprising the greater part of the Spanish régime.
In the selection of material, the Editors have sought to make the scope of the work commensurate with the breadth of the field, and to allot to each subject space proportioned to its interest; not