| Item Call Number |
FP00448 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
FP00448 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - FP00448
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Ignacio Morales de Mercado, O.S.A.
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| General Note |
- General note - The Augustinian friar--the son of a peninsular and a native woman--who did extensive studies of Philippine plants and their therapeutic values. Mercado wrote "Libro de medicinales de esta Tierra y Declaraciones de las Virtudes de Arboles y Plantas que estan Islas Filipinas", a copy of which is in the Newberry Library in Chicago. With slight modifications, the work was published as a section of Fr. Manuel Blanco''s Flora de Filipinas. Mercado died in 1698 while he was a curate of Bauan, Batangas. He was fifty.
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Local Note (rlin) |
- Local note - R. P. Fr. Ignacio MercadoCaption Note)
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1916
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Spaniards
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1916
- Focus term - augustinians
- Focus term - botany
- Focus term - clerics
- Focus term - cultura social
- Focus term - europeans
- Focus term - native woman
- Focus term - peninsular
- Focus term - plants
- Focus term - religious
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