Historian's adventures. During a quick visit to the British Library in 2019, I requested the 1609 edition of Antonio de Mor...

Historian's adventures.
During a quick visit to the British Library in 2019, I requested the 1609 edition of Antonio de Morga's "Sucesos de las islas Filipinas (right). It is an extremely rare book (less than 50 known copies in the universe) made more so because Jose Rizal copied it out by hand. There was no photocopier, scanner, or smartphone in his time.
Rizal spent his time in London in the summer of 1889 copying the Morga in the daytime, enriching it at night with very long notes ...