The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, and dress of the Indians as well as a superb treatise on the Incas—their legends, history, and social institutions.
Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton from the holograph manuscript in the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina de Sevilla; foreword by John Howland Rowe
A seventeenth-century account of Inca history and customs.
Author(s): Father Bernabe Cobo; Roland Hamilton; (transl & ed.); John Howland Rowe; (foreword)
Series: The Texas Pan American Series
Edition: 8th
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Commentary: Uniform title: Historia del Nuevo Mundo. Capítulo 11-12. English.
Pages: 279
City: Austin
Tags: Incas; Indians of South America—Peru.
Foreword by John Howland Rowe
Introduction
A Scientific Outlook of the Seventeenth Century
A Note on the Translation
Book I
1. Concerning the sparse population of America and its causes
2. Of the names which were given to the natives of the Indies and of their color
3. Of the physical make-up, body proportions, and facial features of the Indians
4. Of the natural make-up of the Indians
5. Of the extreme ignorance and barbarity of the Indians
6. Of the usages that the Indians have regarding their individual houses, clothing, and sustenance
7. Of the most general customs common to all of the Indians
8. In which the same topic is continued
9. Of the many languages used by the various nations of Indians, and how these all seem to have a common origin
10. In which all the Indian nations are divided into three categories
11. On the origin of these peoples of America
12. In which the same is continued
13. How the animals and birds that we find here must have come to this land
14. In which the same topic is continued
15. In which is given the opinion of those who place within these Occidental Indies the region called Ophir in the Divine Scriptures, to which the ships of Solomon navigated
16. In which the proposed opinion is refuted
17. Of another argument with which the same thing is proven as in the last chapter
18. The same thing is proven with other evidence
19. The same subject is continued
20. In which the arguments of the opposing opinion are answered and the location of Ophir is established
Book II
1. Of the former inhabitants of Peru before the Incas reigned
2. Of the efforts that have been made several times to ascertain the true history of the Incas and the rites and customs of their republic
3. Of the legendary origin of the Incas, former kings of Peru
4. Of Manco Capac, the first king of the Incas
5. Of the second Inca, named Cinchi Roca
6. Of Lloque Yupanqui, the third Inca
7. Of Mayta Capac, fourth king of the Incas
8. Of the Inca Capac Yupanqui, fifth king of Peru
9. Of the sixth king of Peru, named Inca Roca
10. Of Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh king
11. Of Viracocha Inca, eighth king
12. Of Pachacutic Inca Yupanqui, ninth king
13. Of the rest of Pachacutic's victories
14. Of Tupa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth king
15. Of the rest of the events in the life of Tupa Inca Yupanqui
16. Of Guayna Capac, the last king of the Incas
17. In which the deeds of Guayna Capac are continued
18. Of the Inca brothers Huascar and Atauhualpa
19. Of the rest of the things that happened in this war
20. Of the rest of the Incas, sons of Guayna Capac who had the king's fringe
21. Of the sons of Manco Inca who maintained the title of king in Vilcabamba
22. Of the name and locality occupied by the Kingdom of the Incas, and how these kings came to rule so many people and provinces
23. How the Incas administered newly conquered lands by putting in these lands outsiders whom they called mitimaes, and the types there were of them
24. How the Incas organized the people that they subjugated into towns, and the way they arranged the towns
25. Of the governors, caciques, and other superiors to whom the Incas delegated the governance of their states
26. Of the laws and punishments with which the Incas governed their kingdom
27. Of the distinction between nobles and taxpayers that there was in this kingdom, and of the way that the latter had of
paying tribute, and the way the king paid salaries to his ministers and rewarded his vassals for the services that they rendered to him
28. Of the division that the Inca made of the farmlands, and of the estate and rents that the Inca and Religion received from them
29. Of the order in which the domesticated livestock was distributed, and the income that the Inca and Religion received in livestock and in clothing from its wool; and how the hunting grounds and woods were royal patrimony
30. Of the storehouses belonging to the Inca and to Religion, the goods that were collected in them, and how these goods were used
31. Of the roads that the Incas made throughout their kingdom and the labor service that was provided by the provinces to repair them
32. Of the tambos and chasques and the tribute that the Indians gave in providing the labor service for them
33. Of the rest of the tribute that the Indians paid their king in personal services
34. Of the tribute of boys and girls that the Inca collected from his vassals and for what purposes they were used
35. Of the control and great power that the Incas had gained over their vassals, and the fear and reverence with which the vassals obeyed and served the Incas
36. Of the order they followed in installing the Inca, the royal insignias, and the Inca's great majesty and splendor
37. Of their computation of time, of the quipos or recording devices, and the method of counting that the Peruvian Indians had
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
