1762Archive Editor

Note: The Symposium is now sold out, but please feel free to attend the reception at 5:30 P.M.Keynote Lecture by Ambeth R. OcampoDate: June 26, 2025Venue: San Agustin Museum and Library from 9:30 AMFree and open to the public.Programme details and required registration here More About the Project About Team Research Aids Privacy Policy

Try to see if you can fill in the blanks of the following page in the manuscript This short transcription exercise will be conducted as a part of the exhibit opening. Both the question and answer are below.  ni remedios acudió al divino el dicho ____ juez y vicario y le puso al suso______ en

Thanks to the 1762 Repatriation Project and the partnership between the University of the Philippines Diliman’s History Department and Princeton University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, students from both institutions transcribed, translated, and analyzed six manuscripts together in weekly remote classes. These sessions were taught by Prof. Christina Lee, with assistance from Prof. Nicholas Sy,

At the launch event, come and hear summaries of the chapters, meet the authors, give your reviews and ask your questions. Additionally, we’ll be giving away three physical copies of the book through a trivia game based on questions from the book. The 314pp full-colour digital copy of the book can be downloaded now at SOAS

When the 1762 project team first encountered the Philippine manuscripts at the Lopez Library, we had a lingering doubt about one of the volumes in the Sotheby’s lot that Mr. Eugenio Lopez purchased in 1966. Unlike the six other volumes that matched the auction catalogue description perfectly, the manuscript  entitled Copia del testamento de Don

In December 2022,  Dr Cristina Juan was again in Manila to visit the  Intramuros  and meet up with Ms Lou Revilla-Baysic, San Agustin’s Museum and Library Collections manager and conservationist and see how the 1762 archive project is progressing. After that  initial visit in June 2022,  we are happy to report that much has been

Regalado Jose and I visited the Lopez Museum on the 11th of January, 2023 to finally figure out what to do with the  Lopez Library materials. From our research, we knew that  Charles Boxer had noted that Eugenio Lopez bought Sotheby’s Lot no. 525  in 1966 through H.P. Krauss booksellers of  New York. It was

Three months after the commencement of the 1762 Archive project, Prof Christina Lee and  Dr Cristina Juan travelled to Manila to officially launch the project in June of 2022. The trip had a number of purposes, but one of the most important  was  to find out if there were any manuscripts or pre-1762printed books that