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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803

Author: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: August 22, 2004 [EBook #13255]

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 caetera_ (May 3), _Eximiae_ (May
3), _Inter caetera_ (May 4), _Extension de la concesion_
(September 25). Alexander VI; Rome, 1493. ... 97
Treaty of Tordesillas. Fernando V and Isabel of Castile,
and Joao 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 Joao II of
Portugal; Madrid, April 15, 1495. 131
Papal Bull, _Praecelsae_ Leo X; Rome, November 3, 1514. 136
Instructions from the King of Spain to his ambassadors. Carlos
I of Spain; Valladolid, February 4, 1523. 139
Letter to Juan de Zuniga. Carlos I of Spain; Pamplona,
December 18, 1523. 145
Treaty of Vitoria. Carlos I of Spain, and Joao III of Portugal;
Vitoria, February 19, 1524
Junta of Badajoz: extract from the records in the possession
and ownership of the Moluccas. Ba