Inscripciones, medallas, edificios, templos, antiquedades, y monumentos del Peru ... [etc.]

Name:

Llano Zapata, José Eusebio de, 1716?-1780; Waddilove, Robert Darley, 1736-1828

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1823

Description:

19th-century copy of a manuscript at the British Museum (King's 219, transferred to the British Museum in 1823) formerly in the collection of William Robertson (1721-1793) containing three 18th-century works on Peru and a fourth, brief work on New Spain. The three works on Peru are a chapter from a work of José Eusebio de Llano Zapata; answers to 36 questions about the manners and customs of the Indians of Peru, put at William Robertson's request by Robert Darley Waddilove to a Spaniard who had lived in South America; and answers to 16 of the same 36 questions, put to a native of Quito, with a note at the end by Waddilove (p. 103).

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Geo. A. Leavitt & Co. (Dec. 13-18, 1886) in the collection of Eugène Boban (label, f. 1r), lot 2416.; From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton.; Boban, Eugène, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Indians of South America -- Peru -- Early works to 1800; Antiquities; Indians of South America

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish

Physical Description:

58 leaves : paper; 324 x 204 mm

Geographic Subject:

Peru -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; New Spain -- Description and travel; New Spain; Peru

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title for manuscript from title page of predominant work (f. 1).; Table of contents: p.1-60: Inscripciones, medallas, edificios, templos, antiquedades, y monumentos del Peru.; Table of contents: p.61-97: [Answers to 36 questions concerning the manners and customs of the Indians of Peru] / [Robert Darley Waddilove]; Table of contents: p.98-103: [Answers to a subset of the same 36 questions] / [Robert Darley Waddilove]; Table of contents: p.104-109: Breve discripcion del reyno de Nueva España.; This was the fifth of ten manuscripts and facsimiles formerly bound together, now disbound (Item 205-Item 214).; Pagination: Paper, 58; iv, 112; modern pencil pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Origin: Copied in the British Museum between 1823 and 1886.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 209

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection