Historia general del Piru and The Getty Murua: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16

Written by the Mercedarian friar Martin de Murua, the Historia general del Piru (1616) is one of only three extant illustrated manuscripts on the history of Inca and early colonial Peru. This immensely important Andean manuscript is here made available in facsimile, its beautifully calligraphed text reproduced in halftone and its thirty-eight hand-colored images—mostly portraits of Inca kings and queens—in color.

Boxed with the facsimile is a set of essays that discuss not only the manuscri...