<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> It has been suggested that this article be merged into Doctrina Christiana . (Discuss) Proposed since September 2017 . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> It has been suggested that this article be merged into Doctrina Christiana . (Discuss) Proposed since September 2017 . </Td> </Tr> <P> The first known printed book in Spanish Philippines was a Chinese language catechism using the Chinese method of printing, produced by the non-Christian Chinese printer Keng Yong in Manila under commission from the Spanish branch of the Order of Preachers . The Spanish historian Carlos Sanz believes that this catechism, Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua China, compuesta por los madres ministros de los Sangleyes, de la Orden de Sancto Domingo . Con licencia, por Keng Young, China, en el Parian de Manila ("Christian Doctrine in the Chinese Letter and Tongue, Constituted for the Mother Ministries of the Sangleys, by the Order of Saint Dominic . With Licence, by Keng Yong, Chinese, in the Parian of Manila") was printed between 1590 and 1592 . </P> <P> The Chinese method of preparing block prints "was used in Manila by the early printers ." "The wooden block" was "probably made of batikulíng or a similar wood ." "The Chinese printer usually held in his right hand two brushes at the opposite extremities of the same handle; with one he inked the face of the characters and, the paper being then laid on the block, he ran the dry brush over it so as to take the impression . This was done with such speed that one man could finish a couple of thousand copies in a day ." </P>

First book printed in the philippines published in manila by dominican friars