Summary: The paper argues that the "Contract" is a modern fake (late 1990s) : its central piece, a drawing representing Pizarro a.o. conquistadors sailing to the Indies, allegedly by Guaman Poma, is merely a tracing based on the -... more
Summary: The paper argues that the "Contract" is a modern fake (late 1990s) : its central piece, a drawing representing Pizarro a.o. conquistadors sailing to the Indies, allegedly by Guaman Poma, is merely a tracing based on the - retouched - 1936 facsimile of the Nueva corónica. Annotations supposedly in the hands of Blas Valera himself and his Jesuit colleague Gonzalo Ruíz, which match hands in other Miccinelli documents, indirectly prove their modern, forged origin, too. --- Contents: [I:] The Miccinelli Manuscripts: The biography of Blas Valera - The Miccinelli Conundrum 1995-2003 - Provenance issues - Selection of a Project - [II:] The Contract Sheet and its Symbolic Drawing: A Well-Hidden Manuscript - "The Drawing is Not a Tracing" - A Tracing After All - Identifying an Original and a Copy - The Missing Link - Select Evidence. [III:] Remaining Textual Elements on the Contract Sheet. [IV:] Conclusion. Notes. Works Cited.
