[42] San Antonio, II, p. 297. This work, treated at length by San Antonio, is proof of the high esteem in which Plasencia was held as a Tagalist. It was incorporated in a document of Governor Francisco Tello, dated July 13, 1599, now in the A. of I. (67-6-18), and first printed in the appendix to Santa Ines, II, pp. 592-603, and translated in B. & R., VII, pp. 173-96. [43] Santiago Vela, VI, pp. 442-3. His study of the questionable _Arte_ of 1581 is the most thorough and detailed yet written. [44] Schilling, p. 205. [45] Pardo de Tavera, _op. cit._, pp. 8-9. After quoting the latter part of this passage, Medina, p. xviii, adds a quizzical note, "I want to cite the opinion of so distinguished a student of the Philippines because it shows how tangled and confused is the information concerning the primitive Philippine press, even among men best informed on the subject." [46] Medina, nos. 1 and 2, p. [3]. [47] Medina, p. xix. [48] Retana had published many of his findings in _La Politico de Espana en Filipinas_, Madrid, 1891-98; in his edition of Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga, _Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas_, Madrid, 1893; and in the _Archivo del Bibliofilo Filipino_, Madrid, 1895-97. [49] Retana, cols. 7-8. We shall speak of Juan de Vera later. [50] Thomas Cooke Middleton, _Some Notes on the Bibliography of the Philippines_, Philadelphia, 1900, pp. 32-33. [51] Pardo de Tavera, _Biblioteca Filipina_, Washington, 1903, pp. 9-10. [52] Medina, _La Imprenta en Manila desde sus Origenes hasta 1810 Adiciones y Ampliacones_, Santiago de Chile, 1904. [53] P. & G., pp. xxi-xxvi. [54] B. & R., LIII, p. 11. [55] Artigas, _op. cit._ He admitted that the celebration should have been held in 1902. [56] Retana, _Origenes de la Imprenta Filipina_, Madrid, 1911. Retana had also published between 1897 and 1911 several other books which contained some information about the early Philippine press, the _Aparato Bibliografico_ in 1906 and his edition of Morga in 1909, both of which have already been cited. [57] Antonio Palau y Dulcet, _Manuel del Librero Hispano-Americano_, Barcelona, 1923-37, III, p. 72. [58] Schilling, _op. cit._ [59] Chirino, p. 3, writes that he was "the first who made converts to Christianity in the Philippines, preaching to them of Jesus Christ in their own tongue--of which he made the first vocabulary, which I have seen and studied;" and Juan de Medina (who originally wrote his history in 1630), p. 54, says that in visiting Cebu in 1612 he "saw a lexicon there, compiled by Father Fray Martin de Rada, which contained a great number of words." Grijalva, _op. cit._, f. 124V, writes that Rada "by the force of his imaginative and excellent ability learned the Visayan language, as he had learned the Otomi in this land [Mexico], so that he could preach in it in five months." [60] Perez, p. 5.