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 […]
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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
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This whole project really began at the archives of the Maughan Library at King’s College in London. It was there that I first saw the elaborate bookplate of Alexander Dalrymple, Scottish geographer for the East India Company and Governor General of the Philippines for a brief time during the British Invasion of Manila from 1762-1764.
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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
As the 1762 archive project works towards fully annotating selected texts in the corpus, we have been using the following research aids for transcribing and translating 16-18th c. Spanish texts. Transcribing Abbreviations This amazing online tool is the best out there. It lists common words that are abbreviated in official Spanish documents and gives their
Be a part of our ongoing effort to transcribe and translate documents from the 1762 archive. Have a look at our From the Page site here: https://bit.ly/3Hp1kZE You can sign up, view the 1762 archive manuscripts in their original languages, try your hand at transcribing pages or even translate a page. If you wish
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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
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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
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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
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