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

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Llano Zapata, José Eusebio de, 1716?-1780.

Contributor:

Waddilove, Robert Darley, 1736-1828.

Boban, Eugène, former owner.

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Memorias histórico-físicas-apologéticas de la América Meridional que a la Majestad del Señor Don Carlos III. Selections

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Peru--Early works to 1800.

Indians of South America.

Antiquities.

Peru--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Peru.

New Spain--Description and travel.

New Spain.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Penn 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.

Physical Description:

58 leaves : paper ; 324 x 204 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 209

Place of Publication:

[London], [between 1823 and 1886]

Language Note:

Spanish.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

p.1-60: Inscripciones, medallas, edificios, templos, antiquedades, y monumentos del Peru.

p.61-97: [Answers to 36 questions concerning the manners and customs of the Indians of Peru] / [Robert Darley Waddilove]

p.98-103: [Answers to a subset of the same 36 questions] / [Robert Darley Waddilove]

p.104-109: Breve discripcion del reyno de Nueva España.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.

Title for manuscript from title page of predominant work (f. 1).

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.

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 207 (no. 2170).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 209

Contains:

Breve discripcion del reyno de Nueva España.

OCLC:

182728810