[2] The woodcut, showing St. Dominic beneath a star holding a lily and a book, the usual symbols of this saint, and clad in the white habit and black cloak of his order, seems to be of oriental workmanship, differing vastly from contemporary Spanish and Mexican cuts of the same type. The clouds, for instance, are characteristically Chinese, and the buildings in the background more reminiscent of eastern temples than European churches. [3] T.H. Pardo de Tavera, _Noticias sobre La Imprenta y el Grabado en Filipinas_, Madrid, 1893, pp. 9-10. Dard Hunter in _Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries_, New York, 1930, pp. 109-16, describes papermaking in China, and mentions the use of "makaso" or "takaso," both species of the paper mulberry, as material for the making of paper. The paper mulberry's scientific name is _Broussonetia papyrifera_. Later, on p. 141, he speaks of the use by the Chinese of gypsum, lichen, starch, rice flour and animal glue for sizing. [4] The best short summaries in English of the beginnings of printing in Mexico are Henry R. Wagner's introduction to the exhibition catalogue of _Mexican Imprints 1544-1600 In the Huntington Library_, San Marino, 1939, pp. 3-10; and Lawrence C. Wroth, _Some Reflections on the Book Arts in Early Mexico_, Cambridge (Mass.), 1945. [5] J.B. Primrose, _The First Press in India and Its Printers_, The Library, 4th Series, 1939, XX, pp. 244-5. [6] Jose Toribio Medina, _La Imprenta en Lima_, Santiago de Chile, 1904-17, no. 1, p. 3. [7] A contemporary copy of this letter--the original is not known--lay forgotten and unnoticed in the Archives of the Indies (1-1-3/25, no. 52), Torres, III, no. 4151, p. 83, until discovered there by Pascual de Gayangos, who called it to the attention of W.E. Retana, who first printed it in _La Politica de Espana en Filipinas_, no. 97, Oct. 23, 1894. It was later rediscovered independently by Medina who also printed it in his _La Imprenta en Manila_, p. xix. Gomez Perez Dasmarinas, formerly corregidor of Murcia and Cartagena in Spain, was appointed governor of the Philippines in 1589, landed at Manila in May 1590, and remained in office until his death in October 1593. [8] _Relacion de lo que se ha escrito y escribe en las Filipinas fecho este ano de 1593_, an apparently inedited MS. in the A. of I., Index 9, no. 81, from which the passage was quoted by Retana in his edition of Antonio de Morga's _Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas_, Madrid, 1909, p. 425, and Manuel Artigas y Cuerva, _La Primera Imprenta en Filipinas_, Manila, 1910, p. xi. This may be the MS. listed by Torres, III, no. 4229, p. 91, as _Breve sumario y memorial de apuntamientos de lo que se ha escrito y escribe en las Islas Filipinas_, undated but probably 1593. [9] _Recopilacion de las Leyes de los Reynos de las Indias_, Madrid, 1681, I, ff. 123v-124r, where they are Laws 1 and 3, Title XXIV, Book I. [10] Medina, p. xxviii, from. _Libro de provisiones reales_, Madrid, 1596, I, p. 231.