A Three-Century Journey: The Lost Manuscript of the History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Issue 3 (July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Díaz, Soledad Carmina González
• Is Part Of: Americas. Volume 78:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 467
• Page End: 491
• Publication Date: 2021-07
• Subjects: manuscripts -- Andean chronicles -- history of books -- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa; America -- History -- Periodicals; Latin America -- History -- Periodicals; United States -- Relations -- Latin America -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Relations -- United States -- Periodicals; AMERICA LATINA -- HISTORIA -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; ESTADOS UNIDOS -- RELACIONES EXTERIORES -- AMERICA LATINA -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; AMERICA LATINA -- RELACIONES -- ESTADOS UNIDOS -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; Electronic journals; 970.05
• DOI: 10.1017/tam.2021.44
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-1615

Abstract

Abstract: The History of the Incas is a chronicle written in Cusco, Peru, at the end of the sixteenth century, by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. It was never published in the colonial period and its only manuscript was lost for three hundred years. At the end of the nineteenth century, the manuscript was found in Göttingen, Prussia. This research note is about a missing manuscript and its unexpected discovery. Moreover, it is about the long and uncharted journey of the History in its multiple lives through Peru, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.