This document summarizes important literary works from Spanish colonial and pre-colonial times in the Philippines. It describes the first books published, including the Doctrina Christiana which propagated Christian teachings, and the Pasyon which tells the story of Jesus' life and suffering. It also discusses early grammar books that described the Tagalog, Ilocano, Bisayan, and Bicol languages to establish rules and vocabularies. Literature from pre-colonial times included proverbs, riddles, chants, songs, folktales, fables, legends, and myths that were orally transmitted.

1. L I T E R A R Y W O R K S
D U R I N G
SPANISH COLONIAL TIME
A N D
PRE- COLONIAL TIME
A Compilation of

2. FIRST BOOKS
 Doctrina Christiana
 Nuestra Señora del Rosario
 Libro de los Cuatro Postprimeras de Hombre
 Barlaan at Josephat
 Pasyon
 Urbana at Feliza
 Ang mga Dalit kay Maria

3. Doctrina Christiana
 The title literally means “Christian Doctrine”, and
thus the primary goal of the book was to propagate
Christian teaching across the Philippine archipelago.
 After a syllabary comes the basic prayers: the Lord's
Prayer, Hail Mary, Credo, and the Salve Regina.
Following these are Articles of Faith, the Ten
Commandments, Commandments of the Holy
Church, Sacraments of the Holy Church,
Seven Mortal Sins, Fourteen Works of Charity,
the Confiteor and a brief Catechism.

4. Nuestra Señora del Rosario
 Nuestra Señora del Rosario is one of the titles or
advocations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of
Christ. According to pious legend the Virgin
appeared to St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican
Order, and gave him the rosary as a form of
contemplative prayer.

5. Libro de los Cuatro Postrimerias de Hombre
 First written book in typography
 Fr. Francisco blancas in 1604.

6. Barlaan at Josephat
 Are two legendary Christian martyrs and saints,
based ultimately on the life of the Gautama
Buddha.It tells how an Indian king persecuted the
Christian Church in his realm.
 Biblical story printed in the Philippines
 First Tagalog novel printed in the Philippines even
though it is only a translation

7. Pasyon
 This is the Book about life and sufferings of jJesu
Christ.
 It is read only during Lenten season.

8. Urbana at Feliza
 Letters between two sisters.
 Influenced greatly the behavior of the people in the
society.
 Modesto de Castro-Father of Classical Prose in
Tagalog.

9. Ang Mga Dalit Kay Maria
 Collection of songs praising the Virgin Mary
 By Fr. Mariano Sevilla in 1865
 Popular during the Flores de Mayo Festival.

10. Literary Compositions
 Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala
 Compendio de la Lengua Tagala
 Arte de la Lengua Ilokana
 Vocabulario de la Lengua Bisaya
 Arte de la Lengua Bicolana

11. Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala
(Arts and Rules of the Tagalog Language)
 Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala is written in
Latin, Spanish, and Tagalog and its material is rice
paper. The book is organized into chapters on
number, nouns, adjectives, voice, verbs, and so on.
Verbs are classified into the tenses present, future,
accusative, ablative, imperative, etc. The systematic
division of Tagalog into a Latin grammatical
framework and the lack of Tagalog terms to describe
the language make clear the author’s utilitarian and
western-oriented approach.

12. Compendio de la Lengua Tagala
(Understanding the Tagalog Language)
 Written by Fr. Gaspar de San Agustin in1703
 Talks about the Tagalog Language

13. Arte de la Lengua Ilokana
(Art of the Ilocano Language)
 First Ilocano grammar book by Francisco Lopez

14. Vocabulario de la Lengua Bisaya
(Bisayan Vocabulary)
 Best Visayan language book
 Written by Mateo Sanchez in 1711

15. Arte de la Lengua Bicolana
(The Art of the Bicol Language)
 First book in the Bicol Language by Fr. Marcos
Libson in 1754.

16. Pre-Colonial Time
 LITERATURE DURING PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
 Proverbs/Epigrams/ Maxims
 Bugtong
 Chants
 Songs
 Folktales
 Fables
 Legends
 Epics
 Myths

17.  Members:
 John Keneth Cabataña
 Jun Michael Repollo
 Paul Andrei Labitad