Main article: Spanish conquest of the Muisca § 1536 - the harsh expedition towards Muisca territoryĮpítome starts with a description of the Caribbean coastal area where the expedition Spanish conquest of the Muisca started. The margins of the main texts are notes with sometimes difficult to discern text, vagued in time. The document is written in old Spanish in the present tense and first person with descriptions of Jiménez de Quesada, written as Ximénez de Quesada, in the third person.

The document is held by the National Historical Archive in Madrid, Spain. The text has been studied by various authors over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly by Juan Friede and modern scholars and various theories about authorship and temporal setting have been proposed. The book was not published until 1889 by anthropologist Marcos Jiménez de la Espada in his work Juan de Castellanos y su Historia del Nuevo Reino de Granada.Įpítome narrates about the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, from the start from Santa Marta in April 1536 to the leave of main conquistador Jiménez de Quesada in April 1539 from Bogotá, arriving to Spain, about 'The Salt People' ( Muisca) encountered in the conquest expedition in the heart of the Colombian Andes, their society, rules, religion, handling of the dead, warfare and neighbouring 'cannibalistic' Panche. Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1979 edition)Ĭonquest expedition described in Epítome:Įpítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada (English: Summary of the conquest of the New Kingdom of Granada) is a document of uncertain authorship, possibly (partly) written by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada between 15.

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