{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":48340,"auction_id":97,"set_id":128,"lot_number":"64","artist":"Francisco Moreno","title":"Historia de la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana\nde Filipinas","starting_price":16000,"signed_dated":"Manila: El Oriente, 1877.","medium":null,"size":"size: 7 3/4\" x 5 1/4\"  \ndepth: 1/2\"","property":null,"coa":"CONDITION REPORT\nHARDBOUND\nPOOR, COVER AND SPINE\nPAGES ARE IN GOOD CONDITION","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The first historian born in the Philippines was a secular priest: Francisco Moreno. The son of a Spanish captain, he was born in Manila around 1607, since he wrote the introduction of this Historia at the beginning of 1649, and mentioned he was 42 years old. He started to study when he was 12 years old. Without finishing higher studies, he was ordained as a priest and was linked during his whole life to the cathedral of Manila, as a member of the cabildo eclesiástico and medio racionero. He must have passed away after 1664.\nHis only historical work is this unfairly little-known Historia de la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Filipinas, an early ecclesiastical history of the Philippines written from the point of view of the secular priesthood, without any particular preference for any religious order. The manuscript was transcribed and edited in 1877 by the printing press of the weekly Philippine journal El Oriente. The book does not carry any information regarding the original codex , whose whereabouts are unknown as of today, or even the biographical details of the author, unfortunately.\nThe origin of the book was a royal cedula by Phillip IV, dated the last day of 1634, ordering to write an account of the events occurred in the Philippines since the arrival of the Spaniards so that it could be included in a global ecclesiastical history in Latin that he had commissioned. The task was not assigned to anyone and it was finally passed by Governor Alonso Fajardo to the cabildo eclesiástico in September 1649. Moreno expected to send the whole manuscript before July 1650. However, we do not know if the manuscript was ever sent to Spain, since Moreno kept writing until 1655, adding updates in the last pages.\nAs it was intended to be rather a report than a history, his work has an unusual structure: the first part, in twelve chapters, is devoted to the main events, and is narrative; the second part, divided into ten chapters, deals with what he believes are the leading personalities in the establishment of the Catholic faith in the archipelago. Despite his explicit aim of writing an objective history, the whole text is highly subjective and is full of personal remarks and opinions regarding the recorded events. He also fails to some promises mentioned in the prologue, as to write about the Filipino martyrs. Curiously, he mentioned two: Lorenzo Ruiz, who was tortured to death in Japan, and a certain López from Dilao who was martyred in Siam and from whom historiography does not provide any mention.\nFor the writing of his history, he readily admits his sources, which he considers the only reliable ones Finally, he adds he is an authority himself, since he remembers faithfully what happened during the last thirty-five years of his lifetime.\nThe position of the author concerning the events is typical of the ecclesiastical class. Regarding the Spanish presence, he sides with the Spanish King and the governors, repeating several times that the primary goal of their presence has been no other than to convert the natives to Christianism. However, regarding the natives, he defends their rights and laments the existence of some abuses. Nevertheless, he reserves praise mainly for several friars, whose works and efforts are described in detail. Despite viewing historical facts of a critical period of the Spanish era from a local perspective, since he lived in Manila his entire life, Moreno’s Historia has been so far surprisingly unnoticed source for historians.","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":50000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":50000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":60080,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":48194,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/64.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":48193,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/64 b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":48192,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/64 a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[25000,30000,35000,40000,45000,50000,55000,60000,70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":63,"next":65,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}