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Lettera apologetica dell' Esercitato accademico della Crusca : contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d'una Peruana, per rispetto alla supposizione de’quipu, scritta alla Duchessa di S****.
Naples: [s.n.], 1750 [i.e. 1751]
Physical Description: [14], 320 [i.e. 326], [14] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Call number: H751/ S299l/ 1-SIZE
Accession number: 06273
Notes: Quichua terms are recorded on two of the folding plates. The plate between p. 262 and 263 has 3 rows of 14 Quichua expressions, with a small (approximately 2-3 cm. in height) color image representing “quipu” underneath each term. The same terms are repeated in 4 rows, without images, on the plate between p. 268 and 269; printed above this list is the statement “La seguente Tavola fa vedere quali Parole-maestre, o quali porzioni di esse han servito per la reduzione in Quipu della sopraddotta Canzoncina”, above which is a single row of 64 images with corresponding Quichua syllables at the very top; no translation provided.
A defense of Françoise de Grafigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Quechua
Genre: Specimen
Region: Spanish America
