Avadeza Maior y Uicaria General deste Rreyno de las Yndias y Monjas · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Avadeza Maior y Uicaria General deste Rreyno de las Yndias y Monjas
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: South America; Lima; Peru; West Indies
Description: The author spends this section of this chapter discussing religious establishment in Peru and different orders within the Church’s hierarchy. This image depicts the order of nuns and convents within the Spanish conquest in Peru. The head abbess of a convent is depicted standing on the left side of the image dressed in her habit and holding a Bible in her left hand. She is pointing to another nun who is kneeling before her in prayer. The word obedencia [obedience] is written above the kneeling nun. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, santas y cieruas de lima en el mundo [saints and servants of Lima and throughout the world].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23258
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_23258_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Nuns; Colonialism; Church Hierarchy; Religious Orders; Convent