Note 3 — Doctrina Christiana

T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Noticias sobre La Imprenta y el Grabado en Filipinas, Madrid, 1893, pp. 9–10. Dard Hunter in Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries, New York, 1930, pp. 109–16, describes papermaking in China, and mentions the use of “makaso” or “takaso,” both species of the paper mulberry, as material for the making of paper. The paper mulberry’s scientific name is Broussonetia papyrifera. Later, on p. 141, he speaks of the use by the Chinese of gypsum, lichen, starch, rice flour and animal glue for sizing.