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Martín de Murúa, O. de M., (c. 1525 in Gipuzkoa, Spain – c. 1618 in Spain) was a Basque Mercedarian friar and chronicler of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. He is primarily known for his work Historia general del Piru (written c. 1580-1616 ), which is considered the earliest illustrated history of Peru.
Martín de Murúa o Martín de Morúa (Guipúzcoa, 1525 o 1540-Madrid, 1617 o 1618) fue un fraile mercedario español, que pasó al Virreinato del Perú como doctrinero, y autor de una Historia general del Perú, crónica ilustrada que abarca la historia de los incas y de la conquista española.
Of the three extant illustrated manuscripts chronicling the history of the Inca empire and early Spanish rule in the Andes, two are by the Mercedarian friar Martín de Murúa, who probably arrived in Peru in the 1570s.
Martín de Murúa was a Spanish Mercedarian friar who lived in Peru at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Murúa wrote two illustrated
Murúa’s descriptions—both in the Galvin and in the Getty—are very general, without mention of speciic details. In contrast, Guaman Poma’s descriptions are focused on characteristics of the “personality” of each queen.
Fray Martín de Murúa tiene la peculiaridad de ser el único cronista sobre el pasado incaico de fines del siglo XVI y principios del XVII que cuenta con dos manuscritos ilustrados a color, escritos con una diferencia de unos dieciséis o más años, de los cuales uno devino en borrador y el otro la versión en limpio que debía ir a la imprenta.
Here is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical components--quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments--but also its relation to other...
