The Boxer Codex

Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-East and East Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29273-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 712 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1139 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Souza, George Bryan

Turley, Jeffrey Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Foreword. x
Acknowledgments. xiii
List of Drawings, Illustrations and Maps. xv
Glossary. xix
Abbreviations. xxxiii

Introduction. 1

PART 1
Transcription

1 Ladrones. 39
2 Cagayans. 43
3 Sambal. 49
4 Visayans. 51
5 Moros. 77
6 Tagalogs. 88
7 Moro Customs. 99
8 Brunei. 106
9 Maluku Islands. 130
10 Java. 133
11 Rutter of Aceh, by Dom João Ribeiro Gaio. 135
12 Ribeiro Gaio’s Rutter of Patani. 180
13 Rutter of Siam, by Dom João Ribeiro Gaio. 188
14 New Guinea, by Miguel Roxo de Brito. 197
15 Japan. 216
16 China’s Tributary Neighbors. 220
17 Tai Ming, by Fr. Martín de Rada, O.E.S.A. 224
18 Chinese Imperial Ceremony. 267
19 Chinese and Tatar Cavalries. 269
20 Chinese Deities. 272
21 Chinese Bestiary. 280
22 Champa. 290

PART 2
Translation

1 Ladrones. 303
2 Cagayans. 315
3 Sambal. 328
4 Visayans. 334
5 Moros. 357
6 Tagalogs. 372
7 Moro Customs. 384
8 Brunei. 397
9 Maluku Islands. 429
10 Java. 433
11 Rutter of Aceh, by Dom João Ribeiro Gaio. 439
12 Rutter of Patani, by Dom João Ribeiro Gaio, António Dias, Henrique Mendes, Francisco das Neves and João Serrano. 485
13 Rutter of Siam, by Dom João Ribeiro Gaio. 492
14 New Guinea, by Miguel Roxo de Brito. 503
15 Japan. 526
16 China’s Tributary Neighbors. 529
17 Tai Ming, by Fr. Martín de Rada, O.E.S.A. 559
18 Chinese Imperial Ceremony. 603
19 Chinese and Tatar Cavalries. 605
20 Chinese Deities. 606
21 Chinese Bestiary. 646
22 Champa. 677

Bibliography. 681
Index. 693

Über Autor(innen)

George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of The Survival of Empire (CUP, 1986 and 2004), Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585-1800 (Ashgate/Variorum, 2014), an editor of Hinterlands and Commodities (Brill, 2014) and the general editor of Brill's EURO series.

Jeffrey S. Turley is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University. He is the author of several articles on historical Romance linguistics.