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(Note this story excerpt is reblogged from Discovery: Research at Princeton Magazine) Scholars digitally repatriate manuscripts raided from a 17th-century Spanish-Empire convent The 1762 British sacking of Manila scattered valuable books and manuscripts across the continents. Now an international collaboration is reuniting these treasures in an online repository. The battle for Manila had already been […]

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

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

  In September 2022, SOAS held its annual Philippine Studies conference titled The 1762 British Invasion of Spanish-Ruled Philippines: Beyond Imperial and National Imaginaries This  year’s iteration of the Annual Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS was chaired by Dr Cristina Juan (SOAS) with Dr  Christina Lee (Princeton University). Being both co-directors of the 1762 archive