BOCANEGRA, Juan P érez.

by Juan P érez Bocanegra

£17,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

.Rare first edition of this guide to the ritual of the Catholic church in Lima in Spanish and Quechua, the Indigenous Peruvian language, with the first piece of vocal, polyphony printed in any New World book, the Quechua hymn to the Virgin Mary, Hanaq pachap kusikuynin, in four voice parts, composed sometime before 1622 (Robert Stevenson, Music in in Aztec Inca Territory (Berkeley: 1968), p. 280). Plainchant notation had been printed in Mexico as early as 1556, anticipating by 142 years the publication of the 1698 edition of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in North America to contain printed music, but only monophonic bass parts. The first Quechua texts were printed around 1584-85, by the first printing press in Lima by the Jesuits in 1581. . . ..Juan P érez Bocanegra (d. 1645) was a Spanish Franciscan who became expert in the Indigenous languages and culture of Peru. He taught Latin in Lima before moving to Cusco, where he served as cantor at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, before becoming a parish priest in Andahuaylillas, where he commissioned extravagant baroque decorations for the church. When this manual was published, the Jesuits controlled his parish, and he crucially disagreed with them over doctrinal questions such as whether entire Indigenous communities should be confessed, as well as over translation into Quechua. The Jesuits preferred Spanish loan words that would avoid doctrinal confusion, while Bocanegra was sensitive to the Andean context, for ex

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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