One of the most important documents for understanding Timucua culture is the 1613 Confessionario en lengua Castellana, y Timuquana con algunos consejos para animar al penitente, by Francisco de Pareja.
This was the subject of the pioneering study by Jerald Milanich and William Sturtevant:
Milanich, Jerald T., William C. Sturtevant, and Francisco Pareja. Francisco Pareja's 1613 confessionario: a documentary source for Timucuan ethnography. Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records Management, 1972.
But where is the actual book located?
The copy that was used by Milanich and Sturtevant was at the New York Historical Society. The National Anthropological Archives has a microfilm of the photostat which John R. Swanton worked on. (NAA MS#2401 "Religious texts in Timucua Pareja 3 texts and Movilla")
The first frame of the microfilm is
The cover page looks like this:
However, the New York Historical Society tells me that they cannot locate this book, and they believe that it has been sold. (It is also possible that it has been lost or stolen.)
In the meantime, a digital version of another copy has become available at archive.org. The version available at archive.org is from the John Carter Brown and the cover page is as below:
This was the subject of the pioneering study by Jerald Milanich and William Sturtevant:
Milanich, Jerald T., William C. Sturtevant, and Francisco Pareja. Francisco Pareja's 1613 confessionario: a documentary source for Timucuan ethnography. Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records Management, 1972.
But where is the actual book located?
The copy that was used by Milanich and Sturtevant was at the New York Historical Society. The National Anthropological Archives has a microfilm of the photostat which John R. Swanton worked on. (NAA MS#2401 "Religious texts in Timucua Pareja 3 texts and Movilla")
The first frame of the microfilm is
The cover page looks like this:
However, the New York Historical Society tells me that they cannot locate this book, and they believe that it has been sold. (It is also possible that it has been lost or stolen.)
In the meantime, a digital version of another copy has become available at archive.org. The version available at archive.org is from the John Carter Brown and the cover page is as below:
Is the copy now at the Brown library the same as the one that used to be at the NYHS? I do not think so, since the JCB version has a waterstain on the cover page that is not visible on the other copy. The NYHS also has some word written by hand to the right of the symbol in the middle of the page.
