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

by Martin de Murua

Overview

Written by the Mercedarian friar Martín de Murúa, 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 manuscript's physical components—quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments—but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.

The essay volume—comprising contributions by Rolena Adorno, Barbara Anderson, Ivan Boserup, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Juan M. Ossio, Elena Phipps, Karen Trentelman, and Nancy Turner—is also sold separately.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892368952
Publisher:	Getty Publications
Publication date:	09/23/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	804
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 13.50(h) x 3.60(d)

About the Author

Thomas B. F. Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art and chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Barbara Anderson is head of exhibitions and consulting curator for Spanish and Latin American materials at the Getty Research Institute.

Editorial Reviews

These books can and should be read widely.  The questions they raise about the possibilities of producing crosscultural history are relevant across the early modern world, not only the Americas.”—Renaissance Quarterly

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