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Ritos y cerimonias que usavan los Ingas : manuscript

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Title
Ritos y cerimonias que usavan los Ingas : manuscript
Alternative Title
  • First line of text: Aviendose tratado las materias pasadas y costumbres de estos Naturales para efecto desauerlos ympedimentos de su conbersion
  • Binder's title: Ritos y ceremonias que usaban los Incas Reyes del Peru������������������ en su Gentilidad que saco������������������ a la luz el Licenciado Polo vecino de la ciudad de la Plata
Creator
Polo de Ondegardo, -1575  
Date
1650-1700  
Call Number
Post-1650 MS 0767
Publication Place
Peru
Description
  • Manuscript account of the customs and traditions of Andean indigenous populations by Polo de Ondegardo. The manuscript is likely a 17th-century copy which was part of a larger volume, as the foliation suggests, and written by a professional, who numbered each of the first 7 bifolia. The last bifolium was likely added later, as the watermark and handwriting differs from the rest of the bifolia; it contains the last four lines of the text, as well as a docket title. It was stored folded for some time and the leaves have been trimmed at the tail edge. The name of the author is indicated on the last page as "Este l.do Polo fu de los primeros pobladores de aquel Rey.no y hombre muy noble y doctor y da mucha verdad". The account was addressed to a high-ranking person, "V S.a R.ma" (Vostra Signoria Reverendissima), Gero������������������nimo de Loayza. The account is primarily concerned with the description of funeral rites of Incan populations of Peru and gives descriptions of the different costumes observed across the country. According to Polo, the Inca worshipped the dead, and the funerals were accompanied by libation and food. In one of the rites described, Polo indicates that women and servants of a dead Cacique were sacrificed. The practice was then followed by the embalming and burial of the bodies. Polo specifies that those sacrificed were children (nin������������������os) or maidens (doncellas). Another burial description details a large hollowed-out pole used as a coffin. Polo also writes that some were practicing cannibalism as a way to bury the person inside themselves, writing that "afirmaron que les enterraron en sus mismos cuerpos". Polo also writes that Don Felipe Caritopa, descendant of Pachacuti Ynca Yupanqui, who was converted to the Christian faith, accompanied him to the province of Andalhuaylas to collect idols in order to prove his true conversion.
  • Title transcribed from note on last page.
  • Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 0767.
  • In Spanish.
  • Date of production conjectured from evidence present in text.
  • Foliation: 248-261.
  • No restrictions on access.
Extent
1 volume (30 pages) : paper
Dimensions
31 x 21 cm
Language
Spanish
Topical Subject
  • Indians of South America  
  • Human sacrifice  
  • Cannibalism  
  • Religion  
  • Civilization  
  • Funeral customs and rites  
Geographic Subject
  • Peru (Viceroyalty)  
  • Andes Region  
  • Peru  
Genre Subject
  • Specimens  
  • Early works to 1800  
  • Sources  
  • Manuscripts  
Associated Entities
Loaysa, Jero������������������nimo de, -1575
Collection Title
Post-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
In the public domain.
Acquisition Information
Provenance: Purchased from Elena Gallego Rare Books LLC, 6 February 2021.
Repository
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Type
Manuscript  
Bibliographic Identifier
99954832493405899
Collection
RBML Manuscript Collection
TitleRitos y cerimonias que usavan los Ingas : manuscript
Alternative Title
  • First line of text: Aviendose tratado las materias pasadas y costumbres de estos Naturales para efecto desauerlos ympedimentos de su conbersion
  • Binder's title: Ritos y ceremonias que usaban los Incas Reyes del Peru������������������ en su Gentilidad que saco������������������ a la luz el Licenciado Polo vecino de la ciudad de la Plata
CreatorPolo de Ondegardo, -1575  
Date1650-1700  
Call NumberPost-1650 MS 0767
Publication PlacePeru
Description
  • Manuscript account of the customs and traditions of Andean indigenous populations by Polo de Ondegardo. The manuscript is likely a 17th-century copy which was part of a larger volume, as the foliation suggests, and written by a professional, who numbered each of the first 7 bifolia. The last bifolium was likely added later, as the watermark and handwriting differs from the rest of the bifolia; it contains the last four lines of the text, as well as a docket title. It was stored folded for some time and the leaves have been trimmed at the tail edge. The name of the author is indicated on the last page as "Este l.do Polo fu de los primeros pobladores de aquel Rey.no y hombre muy noble y doctor y da mucha verdad". The account was addressed to a high-ranking person, "V S.a R.ma" (Vostra Signoria Reverendissima), Gero������������������nimo de Loayza. The account is primarily concerned with the description of funeral rites of Incan populations of Peru and gives descriptions of the different costumes observed across the country. According to Polo, the Inca worshipped the dead, and the funerals were accompanied by libation and food. In one of the rites described, Polo indicates that women and servants of a dead Cacique were sacrificed. The practice was then followed by the embalming and burial of the bodies. Polo specifies that those sacrificed were children (nin������������������os) or maidens (doncellas). Another burial description details a large hollowed-out pole used as a coffin. Polo also writes that some were practicing cannibalism as a way to bury the person inside themselves, writing that "afirmaron que les enterraron en sus mismos cuerpos". Polo also writes that Don Felipe Caritopa, descendant of Pachacuti Ynca Yupanqui, who was converted to the Christian faith, accompanied him to the province of Andalhuaylas to collect idols in order to prove his true conversion.
  • Title transcribed from note on last page.
  • Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 0767.
  • In Spanish.
  • Date of production conjectured from evidence present in text.
  • Foliation: 248-261.
  • No restrictions on access.
Extent1 volume (30 pages) : paper
Dimensions31 x 21 cm
LanguageSpanish
Topical Subject
  • Indians of South America  
  • Human sacrifice  
  • Cannibalism  
  • Religion  
  • Civilization  
  • Funeral customs and rites  
Geographic Subject
  • Peru (Viceroyalty)  
  • Andes Region  
  • Peru  
Genre Subject
  • Specimens  
  • Early works to 1800  
  • Sources  
  • Manuscripts  
Associated EntitiesLoaysa, Jero������������������nimo de, -1575
Collection TitlePost-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionIn the public domain.
Acquisition InformationProvenance: Purchased from Elena Gallego Rare Books LLC, 6 February 2021.
RepositoryRare Book & Manuscript Library
TypeManuscript  
Bibliographic Identifier99954832493405899
CollectionRBML Manuscript Collection

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