The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geogra

In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.

George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of The Survival of Empire (CUP, 1986 and 2004), Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585-1800 (Ashgate/Variorum, 2014), an editor of Hinterlands and Commodities (Brill, 2014) and the general editor of Brill’s EURO series.
Jeffrey S. Turley is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University. He is the author of several articles on historical Romance linguistics.