The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1601–1700
6 works
c. 1615
Spanish
Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala · c. 1535–c. 1616
Twelve hundred pages and four hundred drawings by an Andean nobleman, addressed to the king of Spain, documenting Inca history and the abuses of colonial rule.
c. 1642
Wendat
Jesous Ahatonhia
Jean de Brébeuf · 1593–1649
A nativity carol in the Wendat language, with the child wrapped in rabbit skin, visited by hunters, and honoured with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.
1643
English
Roger Williams · c. 1603–1683
A phrasebook of Narragansett with observations on their hospitality, government, and religion, and verses observing that the English are often the worse people.
1632–1673
French
The Jesuits of New France
Annual reports from missionaries among the Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquian peoples, describing customs, languages, epidemics, torture, and their own deaths.
New Testament 1661; complete 1663
Massachusett
Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God
John Eliot with Cockenoe, Job Nesutan, and James Printer · 1604–1690
The whole Bible translated into an Algonquian language and printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a team in which the Native collaborators did much of the work.
1671
English
John Eliot · 1604–1690
Model conversations for Native preachers to use with their own relatives, written to be practised — and giving the sceptical side arguments of real force.
6 of 1774 works