Manuscript cultures of colonial Mexico and Peru : new questions and approaches /
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts, the Galvin Murúa, the Getty Murúa, the Florentine Cod...
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Los Angeles :
Getty Research Institute,
[2014]
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| Series: | Issues & debates.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond the normal: collaborative research and the forensic study of New World manuscripts / Thomas B.F. Cummins and Emily A. Engel
- New assessment of the hidden texts in the Galvin manuscript of Fray Martín de Murúa / Juan M. Ossio A.
- Dibujado de mi mano: Martín de Murúa as artist / Thomas B.F. Cummins
- Woven documents: color, design, and cultural origins of the textiles in the Getty Murúa / Elena Phipps
- Accounting for unfinished history: how evidence of book structure provides a new context for the making of the Galvin and Getty Murúas / Nancy K. Turner
- Colorants and artists' palettes in the Murúa manuscripts / Karen Trentelman
- Let the waters and the pigments flow on these pages: making and emending landscape in the Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) / Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol
- The visual construction of a historical narrative: book design and calligraphy of the Florentine Codex / Marina Garone Gravier
- The colors of creation: materials and techniques in the Florentine Codex / Diana Magaloni Kerpel.