Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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Christ Figure Created in the Americas (058.00.00)

Christ Figure Created in the Americas
Fragment of Christ figure. San Rafael Cave, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Taino, sixteenth century. Carved lignum vitae. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (058.00.00)

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First Dictionary Printed in the Americas (099.00.03)

First Dictionary Printed in the Americas
Alonso de Molina (d. 1585). Vocabulario en lengua castellana y Mexicana (Vocabulary in the Castilian and Mexican languages). Mexico: Antonio de Spinosa, 1571. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (099.00.03)

Explaining Indian Life (101.00.03)

Explaining Indian Life
Diego Valadés (b. 1533). Rhetorica Christiana. . . . (Christian Rhetoric . . . ). Pervsiae: Petrumiacobum Petrutium, 1579. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (101.00.03)

Vocabulary of the Galibi Language (100.00.03)

Vocabulary of the Galibi Language
Pierre Pelleprat (1606–1667). Introduction a la langue des Galibis, sauuages de la terre ferme de l’Amerique (Introduction to the language of the Galibis . . . ). Paris: Cramoisy, 1655. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (100.00.03)

Handbook for Priests (103.00.04)

Handbook for Priests
Priest’s handbook, Guatemalan highlands. Bound manuscript, ca. 1544–1570. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (103.00.04)

King Phillip’s Concerns (105.00.00)

King Phillip’s Concerns
King Phillip II (1577–1598). Autograph letter to Archbishop Pedro de Contreras, December 2, 1598. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (105.00.00)

The Old Ways (102.00.03)

The Old Ways
Diego de Landa (1524–1579). Relation des choses de Yucatán . . . par l'abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg (Account of things of Yucatan . . . Translated and with an introduction by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg). Paris: Auguste Durand, 1864. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102.00.03)

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