Artes, Vocabularios, and Related Ecclesiastical Materials of Quichua/Quechua, Aymara, Puquina, and Mochica Published During the Colonial Period

All works have a history, sometimes tangential, of their own. This study is an outgrowth of my curiosity as to when and how Quichua became the lingua franca of the indigenous peoples of the highlands of the Kingdom of Quito (somewhat larger in nominal size than its successor state the modern Republic of Ecuador) well before the colonial period came to an end, not that I have been able to answer those questions as completely or as satisfactorily as I would have liked.