Prologo Las Armas de sv S[enori]a · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Prologo Las Armas de sv S[enori]a
Subject: Coat of Arms; Christianity; Bishops; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts the coat of arms of the bishops of Peru. The author placed this image before a prologue addressing the priests of Peru on how to act according to their religious duties. The writing inside the coat of arms reads, “en este escudo se a de pintar las armas de los yllustres yn cristos su senoría obispos deste rreyno de cada obispo, y, en muriendo, se borre y se pinte del que biniere de nuebo y su letrero” [This is the coat of arms of the illustrious bishops of Christ in this kingdom of the Earth. And in death, the one who comes again his sign is erased and painted]. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “que se dexe de negocios y use su oficio de sazerdote, la muger que entrare a la casa del padre sea descomulgada y castigada por todas las justicias de su magestad en este rreyno” [he owes business and uses his office as priest. The woman who enters the priest’s house is disgraced and punished by all the justices of her majesty in the kingdom].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23617
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23617_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Coat of Arms; Christianity; Bishops; Colonialism; Colonization

Media: mta_23617_OBJ.jpg