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Complete digitalized facsimile of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (New Chronicle and Good Government)

See the facsimile on the Guaman Poma Website of the Royal Library of Denmark.
http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm
[comments available in english and spanish]

The original manuscript was digitalized around the year 2000, in true colors (various shades of black to brown ink). [ so ... the colorful reproductions that we see here and there on the internet are not taken from the original manuscript ]

Each of the ~1200 pages, including 398 full-page drawings, can be examined closely, and downloaded, as a fine definition image. (click on the button "Larger Image")

The website also links to a wealth of digital resources related to Guaman Poma and his time.

We can read [http://wayback-01.kb.dk/wayback/20101105080508/http://www2.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/docs/adorno/2002/index.htm] that before 2000, the manuscript already had a "history" (that is not considered to have excessively reduced its readibility) :