A noncollector’s Filipiniana
The first antique Filipiniana dictionary I ever owned (“Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala” by Pedro de Sanlucar, 1754) came from Ambeth Ocampo. Way back in the early ’80s, he was already collecting a lot of old Filipino books—I mean by “old” that most of them were still in Spanish—that I then wondered what their use ever was going to be. (You’d need a Spanish dictionary beside you all the time.)