Note 28 — The Printing of the Books
Reading edition
Hervas, Saggio Pratico delle lingue, Con prolegomeni, e una raccolta di orazioni Dominicali in più di trecento lingue, e dialetti, Cesena, 1787, pp. 128–9. Although Schilling, p. 208, says that Hervas had a copy of the 1593 Doctrina before him, which “had been lent or given” by Bernardo de la Fuente, Hervas merely says that he took his information “from the best documents, which showed the grammar; and the Tagalog and Visayan dictionary were given me by Messrs. D. Antonio Tornos and D. Bernardo de la Fuente.” There is no doubt, however, but that Hervas had a copy of the Doctrina, or accurate and extensive transcripts from a copy known to one of his friends.