Rare Books at JPL, Special Collections
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).
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.