Arts and Cultures of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes

A guide to selected overviews and primary source codices and chronicles

Martín de Murúa

Historia General del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 by Martín de Murúa
Call Number: F3444 .M9 2008

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This immensely important Andean manuscript, the Historia general del Piru (1616), written by the Mercedarian friar Martín de Murúa, is one of only three extant illustrated manuscripts on the history of Inca and early colonial Peru. Also available to download (see next item).

The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of Martín de Murúa's "Historia general del Piru," J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 by Tom Cummins and Barbara Anderson
Call Number: F3444 .M9 2008 Suppl.

A set of essays on Historia general del Piru 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.
Códice Murúa: historia y genealogía de los reyes incas del Perú del padre mercenario Fray Martín de Murúa: códice Galvin by Martín de Murúa and Juan M. Ossio
Call Number: F3429 .M8817 2004

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