The Boxer Codex ― Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pac

In The Boxer Codex, two scholars have transcribed, translated and annotated a unique and illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript that deals with the early-modern geography, history and ethnography of the western Pacific and maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia.

George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen. He is the author ofThe Survival of Empire (CUP, 1986 and 2004), Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585-1800 (Ashgate/Variorum, 2014), an editor ofHinterlands 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.