Doctrina Christiana: The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
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Doctrina Christiana: The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
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[127] The title-page of this unique book is as follows: [row of
type ornaments] / _Ordinationes Generales_ / prouinciae Sanctissimi
Rosarij / [type ornament] Philippinarum. [type ornament] / Factae per
admodum Reuerendum patrem fratrem / Ioanem de Castro, primum vicarium
generalem e- / iusdem prouintiae. De consilio, & vnanimi con / sensu
omnium frattu, qui primit_9_ in pro / uintiam illam se contulerunt,
euan / gelizandi gratia./ Sunt que semper vsque in hodiernum diem in
om- / nibus eiusdem prouintiae capitulis infalibiliter / acceptatae,
inuiolabiliter ab omnibus / fratribus obseruandae. / Binondoc, per
Ioannem de Vera china / Christianum. Cum licentia. 1604. / [row of
type ornaments]. The volume, an octavo bound in maroon levant morocco
by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, consists of eight leaves, as follows:
title-page as above, on the verso the permission signed at Manila,
June 24, 1604, by Fr. Miguel Martin de San Jacinto, prior provincial of
the Dominican Province of the Philippines; the text of the ordinances
in Latin on eleven pages, with the device of the Dominican order on
the verso of the last page; blank.
[128] See note 102.
[129] Medina, _Adiciones y Ampliacixones_, p. [5].
[130] Retana, cols. 77-8, where he gives as his source Hilario Ocio,
_Resena biografica de los religiosos de la provincia del Santisimo
Rosario de Filipinas_, Manila, 1891, I, p. 63. Ocio did not cite
Remesal as his source, but the information, including the printer's
name as Francisco de Vera, is the same.
[131] Both title-pages are reproduced in Francisco Vindel, _Manual
Graphico-Descriptivo del Bibliofilo Hispano-Americano_, Madrid,
1930--34, IX, p. 22, and VII, p. 181 respectively.
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