[106] B. & R., VII, pp. 220-3, translated from Retana, _Archivo_, III, pp. 47-80, and there printed from the original MS. in the A. of I. (68-1-32), Torres, III, no. 3698, p. 32. [107] Remesal, pp. 681-2. [108] B. & R., VII, pp. 223-5, as in note 106. [109] Martinez-Vigil, _op. cit._, p. 246, lists as written by Benavides a _Vocabularium sinense facillimum_, and Vinaza, p. 17, cites his entry. [110] Schilling, p. 210, says that in his letter Cobo himself recorded that "Benavides wrote the first Chinese catechism in the Philippines." He does not however differentiate between writing in Chinese characters and writing transliterated Chinese, and moreover "hizo doctrina" may only mean that he taught the doctrine, not necessarily that he wrote one. [111] B. & R., VII, p. 238, as in note 106. [112] Aduarte, I, p. 140. [113] Aduarte, I, p. 140, says, before the previously quoted passage, that Cobo "put the Doctrina Christiana in the Chinese language," and Vinaza, pp. 17-23, lists seven books by him, including the famous translation of the Chinese classic, _Beng-Sim-Po-Cam_, the original MS. of which, with an introductory epistle by Benavides, dated from Madrid, December 23, 1595, is in the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid; an _Arte de las letras chinas_; _Vocabulario chino_; _Catecismo o doctrina christiana en chino_; (cited from Leon Pinelo, _op. cit._, 1737-38, I, col. 142); _Tratado de astronomia en chino_; _Linguae sinica ad certam revocata methodum_ (called by Martinez-Vigil, _op. cit._, p. 263, "the first works or work on the Chinese language"); and _Sententiae plures_, excerpted from various Chinese books. See also Beristain, _op. cit._, I, p. 316, and Quetif and Echard, _op. cit._, II, pp. 306-7. [114] Aduarte, I, p. 122. [115] Fernandez, _Historia Eclesiastica_, p. 304, "In the Chinese language and letters, P. Fr. Domingo de Nieva, of San Pablo of Valladolid, printed a memorial of the Christian life; and P. Fray Tomas Mayor, of the province of Aragon, from the Convent and College of Orihuela, the Symbol of Faith." In his _Historia de los Insignes Milagros_, f. 217, Fernandez states that both these works were printed at Bataan. Since Mayor did not arrive in the islands until 1602 his work is not pertinent to the present discussion. Mayor's book was seen but inadequately described by Jose Rodriguez, _Biblioteca Valentina_, 1747, p. 406, from a copy then in the Library of the Dominican Convent at Valencia, but now lost. Medina records it under the year 1607, no. 6, p. 6. See also Leon Pinelo, _op. cit._, 1737--38, II, f. 919r, and Antonio, _op. cit._, I, p. 330. [116] Aduarte, I, p. 342. [117] Medina, nos. 399-402, pp. 261-2.