This room begins with Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal's Spanish novel carried into Tagalog by journalist, translator, and organizer Pascual H. Poblete in 1909.

The historical translation is complete as a novel text and retains its original orthography and 282 notes. It does not supply Rizal's Spanish original, modern Filipino, El Filibusterismo, or the wider Tagalog novel tradition.