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El Primer Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, 1615, Royal Danish Library Digital Edition)

Royal Danish Library, 1615 manuscript

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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala was an Andean nobleman who wrote and illustrated this roughly 1,200 page chronicle of Andean history and Spanish colonial rule around 1615, addressed as a petition to the King of Spain. The autograph manuscript has been held by the Royal Library of Denmark since the 1660s and was digitized and published online in 2001; it is a primary Andean account of pre-Columbian history, including the pachakuti doctrine of cataclysmic world ages, recorded in the Andean chronicler's own voice rather than a later summary of it.

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A primary colonial era source written by an Andean author in his own voice, held in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register; tier 1 as a primary document, read with the ordinary caution any single colonial chronicle needs given known disagreement between chroniclers on specific figures.
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Recorded in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2007. A colonial era Andean chronicle written and illustrated by an Andean author, blending indigenous historical memory with Christian framing; one of several colonial chroniclers who record Andean ideas of cyclical world ages, and chroniclers differ from one another on the exact count and length of those ages.
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Author
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Publisher
Autograph manuscript, 1615; digital facsimile edition, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, 2001
Publication Year
1615
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http://www5.kb.dk/en/nb/tema/poma/index.html
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El Primer Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, 1615, Royal Danish Library Digital Edition)
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Autograph manuscript, 1615; digital facsimile edition, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, 2001, 1615View the Source
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