Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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the manuscript Poyanne

Half a century before collecting the archives of the Kingdom of Belgium, the castle was Poyanne custodian of another historic treasure of great value.

This is a manuscript called Poyanne, entitled Historia del origen y Genealogia real de los reyes Incas del Peru , dated 1590, which is one of only three first illustrated manuscripts on the history of the past Inca culture and Hispanic, and the beginning of the conquest and English colonization. It is even the first version of the original return and historical chronicle compiled in 1616 known as the Historia general del Peru

This manuscript was written by a monk in Peru Basque missionary, Martin de Murua, with the help of scribes and Aboriginal artists. Its author has gathered and integrated evidence and oral accounts of the Inca culture and political history in general. But the most striking feature of this column is formed by numerous illustrations, portraits of the Inca nobility and performances of traditional ceremonies. The book includes beautiful watercolor effect 112 the vast majority is attributed to his collaborator Peruvian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, also author of an impressive chronicle more critical completed around 1615.

remained unpublished during the seventeenth century, the work disappears after returning from Spain in 1616 Murua. In the eighteenth century, the manuscript 's is found in the possession of the Jesuit College at Alcalá de Henares in Spain, then preserved and discovered in 1879 in the library of the Jesuit house Poyanne installed. A copy of the text is only made in 1890, which is kept by the Jesuits at Loyola after their return to Spain. But the original disappears again and was long considered lost. In fact, following a route obscure and doubtful, Spain and various art markets, it is bought in the 1950s by a bookseller in San Francisco, and finally sold to an Irish collector John Galvin with whom he was rediscovered and revealed in 1981.

Compilation and second version dated of 1616 has also seen many vicissitudes, from the hands of kings Philip III and Philip IV at the University of Salamanca, then the hands of Joseph Bonaparte trying to take him to France to those Wellington seizes and retains England. It was finally sold at auction in London in 1979, through Cologne and finally to California where she is kept in the Museum's collection J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles since 1983.

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