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The National Archives of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Sinupan ng Pilipinas and abbreviated NAP) is an agency of the Republic of the Philippines mandated to collect, store, preserve and make available archival records of the Government and other primary sources pertaining to the history of the country.
Due to their historical significance, the documents were declared as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Archives of the Philippines Director Victorino Manalo during the Second Baybayin Conference at the Museum of the Filipino People, Manila on 22 August 2014. It was the first declaration made the Philippines' national archives and the ...
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...
Plan of a first class public school in Mati, Mindanao Spanish document section of the National Archives of the Philippines: National Library of the Philippines, Ermita, Manila: 18 million original pages of documentation from the Spanish colonial period dating as far as the 16th century [15] [15] [16] Feeding the Chicken Painting by Simon Flores
The archives is also home to the only incunabula, or books printed before 1500, in the country. [1] Aside from having one of the largest collection of 15th-, 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century European manuscripts in Asia, the archives also boasts of possessing the biggest collection of extant ancient baybayin scripts in the world. [1] [2]
The Miguel de Benavides Library hosts centuries-old publications some of which are accessible online through the UST Digital Library. [5] The library is also in possession of the UST Baybayin Documents, two documents written in baybayin script, which has been declared as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Archives of the Philippines in 2014.
My dear, there are always people who are just a little faster, more brilliant, more aggressive.” [7] [8] Manapat’s book became the best-selling book in contemporary Philippine history at that time. In 1996-1998 and 2002–2008, Manapat was Director of the Records Management and Archives Office of the Philippines (The National Archives).
The Philippine Registry of Cultural Property, abbreviated as PRECUP (Filipino: Patalaan ng mga Ari-ariang Kultural ng Pilipinas), is a national registry of the Philippine Government used to consolidate in one record all cultural property that are deemed important to the cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, of the Philippines. [1]