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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.
The National Library of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Aklatan ng Pilipinas or Aklatang Pambansa ng Pilipinas, abbreviated NLP, Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional de Filipinas) is the Philippines' official repository of information on cultural heritage and other literary resources.
The pre-colonial Philippines uses the Abugida writing system that has been widely used in writing and seals on documents though it was for communication and no recorded writings of early literature or history [9] Ancient Filipinos usually write documents on bamboo, bark, and leaves which did not survive unlike inscriptions on clays, metals, and ...
This made the University the first library school in the Philippines and one of the first in Asia. The first full library studies program was offered two years later, in 1916. In March 1961, the Institute of Library Science was formally established, and a year later, the institute established its graduate program.
Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin's 1937 thesis X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols [14] is indexed by EThOS Brian May's 2007 thesis A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud [15] is indexed by EThOS. Germaine Greer's 1968 thesis The ethic of love and marriage in Shakespeare's early comedies is indexed by EThOS. [16]
With an introduction written by Zeus A. Salazar, Agpalo’s book is a “major contribution” to Filipinology that covers important areas of political science in the Philippines, including political dynamics, comparative government, comparative politics, Philippine government, Philippine politics, political philosophy, political theory ...
Due to his efforts, the Filipiniana collection of the Philippine National Library became one of the most complete collection in Philippine studies. He was a member of the executive board of the Asociacion Historico-Geografica de Filipinas as well as the prestigious Academia de la Lengua Filipina. In 1915, he was inducted as an honorary ...
Archived from the original on November 9, 2005. Friis, Herman Ralph, ed. (1967). The Pacific Basin: A History of Its Geographical Exploration. American Geographical Society. Go, Julian; Foster, Anne L. (2003). The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3099-8. Hicks, Nigel (2005).