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Diccionario Español – Bagobo compuesto por el P. Mateo Gisbert de la Compañia de Jesús.

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First edition of this Spanish – Bagobo language dictionary, including a brief grammar, by the Jesuit missionary Mateo Gisbert, published just six years before Spanish rule in the Philippines was ended by the 1898 Treaty of Paris. Bagobo is a language of the southern Philippines spoken in the Davao del Sur province of the island of Mindanao. The Diccionario was the result of twelve years study by Gisbert among the Bagobo people. He refers in his prologue to the challenges facing missionaries in Mindanao due to ‘la babélica confusión de lenguas que hablan sus habitantes’.

In addition to his linguistic and missionary activities, Gisbert was an accomplished mountaineer. In 1880 he participated in the first successful ascent of Mount Apo, the highest mountain in the Philippine Archipelago.

Only the British Library copy on COPAC.

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