BIB_ID
108487
Accession number
MA 155
Display Date
1572 and [1534-1537].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (200 leaves), bound ; 33 cm
Notes
Dates of writing identified in De Ricci.
See collection files for a typed English translation of Libro viejo de la fundacion de Cuzco ... y otras cosas del tiempo del Marques Pizarro.
Some of the documents are written in secretary hand.
See collection files for a typed English translation of Libro viejo de la fundacion de Cuzco ... y otras cosas del tiempo del Marques Pizarro.
Some of the documents are written in secretary hand.
Provenance
Said to have been found in the shop of an Italian grocer in the city of Lima by Adolf F. Bandelier in 1892, and brought by him to New York in 1903; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Containing transcripts of documents relating to the founding and early history of Cuzco, Peru, dated 1572, recording statutes and ordinances of the Spanish viceroys for the building of a cathedral and hospital, and a tribute to the Emperor Charles V. Signed by Hernando de Soto, Pedro de Candia, Jose Antonio de Valverde, Joseph Antonio de Areche, Gonzalo Pizarro, and Francisco de Toldeo throughout. Followed (on fols. 167-200) by an earlier register of deliberations and original land grants of the city of Cuzco, signed by Gonzalo Pizarro, Hernando de Soto, Pedro de Candia, and others, dated [1534-1537].
Housed in
Blue cloth box drop-spine box (35.3 cm)
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