This digital project aims to create an easy to use and free online resource for a user to navigate through some of the fascinating illustrations depicted by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala in his book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government.
This project is an online exhibit to display the digitized illustrations from Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s book El Primer Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno. This digital exhibit has the illustrations for a user to view along with transcriptions and a translation to English for each one of the images.
NAVIGATION GUIDE:
This site is to be able to browse through a selection of illustrations. All of the illustrations are from the El Primer Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno collection. All of the current illustrations come from one collection. The illustrations are broken down into three exhibits, within those exhibits are exhibit pages, separated by subject matter. Click into the exhibit from the 'browse exhibits' tab and find a description of the overall exhibit and then click into the individual exhibit pages to explore the illustrations of that specific subject matter.
If interested in a specific image, click on that image to be taken to the item page to see the according metadata information. One can browse through and search all items uploaded on the 'browse items' tab.
Check out the 'Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala' tab to find out more about the author of the manuscript and his role in Colonial Peru.
WEBSITE FEATURES:
- Exhibits by Topic
- Finding Aid
- Item Meta Data
- Translations
- High Quality Images
DISCLAIMER:
This manuscript was written in Spanish and Quechua (this is the ancient Incan language) so there are words and phrases that do not have an English translation. There are also many spellings of the same words of locations, names, and terms. You may see different spellings throughout the site.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Ivan Boserup, Bruno Svindborg, Jørgen Byberg Hansen, Peter Nyboe Rasmussen, Guadalupe Ortiz Elguea, Rolena Adorno, John Charles, Fernanda Macchi
RIGHTS:
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, “THE FIRST NVEVA CORÓNICA I BVEN GOVERNMENT: THE FIRST NEW CHRONICLE AND GOOD GOVERNMENT,” The Illustrations of El Primer Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno, A Glance at Peru in 1615, http://ashleypalazzo.org/IllustrationsofElPrimerNuevaCoronicaYBuenGobierno/.