Details

Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of South America—Peru—Social conditions [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of South America—Peru—Religion [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

1772.

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

An apparently unpublished manuscript account in Spanish of the Indians of Peru, their conditions, religion, habits, and other interesting details. The author is outspoken against certain conditions that prevailed, both in civil and religious life, and for this reason was probably refused a license to print.

Binding note

Half-red morocco, original marbled wrappers, bound in.

Language note

Text in Spanish.

Provenance

This manuscript is noted in Medina's "La imprenta en Lima" as being in the "Catalogue de Chaumette des Fossés," Medina inferring that it was by José del Hoyo, author of the late 17th century; but the manuscript alludes to contemporary authors such as Don Jorge Juan, a writer on navigation and voyages, and is therefore of the date noted in the title. Bookplate of B. Stetson. Sale American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Apr. 17-18, 1935.

Source acquisition

Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Cite as

Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 4, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

In

Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

OCLC

1340461626

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