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Printed Document Collections

There are many printed collections of unedited transcripts of manuscript documents, all of which can serve as important primary source materials for documentary research. While it is always advantageous to check original manuscripts when possible and reasonable, the published volumes listed below can be an immense time saver for historical research. A large number of these volumes were published during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On this page I have also included several digitized printed descriptive catalogs of documents in archives (including one series that has facsimile prints of handwritten late 19th-century transcriptions of earlier records in the British Public Records Office).

Printed volumes normally have indices which can of course be useful for finding references to specific topics, but since Google Books and Internet Archive host searchable digitized versions of these volumes (sometimes including several copies at different libraries), the online search bars for both these websites can be extremely useful. However, keep in mind that OCR software doesn't always recognize printed text correctly, so there are frequently more occurrences of specific search terms than may show up in results. Furthermore, unedited transcribed manuscript documents commonly portray variable spellings as found in the original manuscripts, and thus digital searches often miss antiquated or eccentric spellings.

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Florida-Specific

Documentos históricos de la Florida y la Luisiana, siglos XVI al XVIII (Manuel Serrano y Sanz 1912)

Colección de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida y Tierras Adyacentes (Buckingham Smith 1857). [also here and here]

Monumenta Antiquae Floridae (Felix Zubillaga 1946)

Colonial Records of Spanish Florida: Letters and Reports of Governors and Secular Persons, Volume I, 1570-1577 (Jeannette Thurber Connor, 1925)

Colonial Records of Spanish Florida: Letters and Reports of Governors, Deliberations of the Council of the Indies, Royal Decrees, and other Documents, Volume II, 1577-1580 (Jeannette Thurber Connor, 1925) [requires free Family Search account]

Relación acerca del presente feliz estado de las Indias Occidentales en la appostólica administración de los Santos Sacramentos y Combersión de los Indios por los Religiossos de nuestro seraphico Padre San Francisco. Hasta el año de 1635 (Francisco de Ocaña 1635; transcribed by José María in "Estado de la orden Franciscana y de sus misiones en América y extremo Oriente en el año de 1635," Archivo Ibero-Americano v. 27, 28, and 30, below)

Part 1, v. 27 (1927), pp. 196-250
Part 2, v. 28 (1927), pp. 38-92 (see Provincia de Santa Elena de la Florida, pp. 84-92)
Part 3, v. 30 (1928), pp. 33-70

Colleción de los Viages y Descubrimientos que hicieron por Mar los Españoles

v. 1 (1825) / v. 2 (1825) / v. 3 (1829) / v. 4 (1837) / v. 5 (1837)

Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Colonización de las Posesiones Españolas en América y Oceanía, sacados, en su mayor parte del Real Archivo de Indias

v. 1 (1864) / v. 2 (1864) / v. 3 (1865)

Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista, y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de América y Oceanía sacados de los Archivos del Reino y muy especialmente del de Indias

[continued from above] v. 4 (1865) / v. 5 (1866) / v. 6 (1866) / v. 7 (1867) / v. 8 (1867) / v. 9 (1868) / v. 10 (1868) / v. 11 (1869) / v. 12 (1869) / v. 13 (1870) / v. 14 (1870) / v. 15 (1871) / v. 16 (1871) / v. 17 (1872) /v. 18 (1872) / v. 19 (1873) / v. 20 (1873) / v. 21 (1874) / v. 22 (1874) / v. 23 (1875) / v. 24 (1875) / v. 25 (1875) / v. 26 (1876) / v. 27 (1877) / v. 28 (1877) / v. 29 (1878) / v. 30 (1878) / v. 31 (1879) / v. 32 (1879) / v. 33 (1880) / v. 34 (1880) / v. 35 (1880) / v. 36 (1881) / v. 37 (1882) / v. 38 (1882) / v. 39 (1883) / v. 40 (1883) / v. 41 (1884) / v. 42 (1884)

Catálogo de Pasajeros a Indias, Siglos XVI, XVII, y XVIII

v. 1, 1509-1534 (1940) / v. 2, 1535-1538 (1942) / v. 3, 1539-1559 (1946) / v. 4, 1560-1566 (1980) / v. 5, t. 1, 1567-1574 (1980) (also v5t1) / v. 5, t. 2, 1575-1577 (1980) (also v5t2) / v. 6, 1578-1585 (1986) / v. 7, 1586-1599 (1986)

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