Luis de Valdivia’s Millcayac and Allentiac treaties (1607). News of a bibliographic finding

Abstract

In  this  paper,  we  report  the  discovery  of  Luis  de  Valdivia’s  Doctrina  cristiana,  catecismo  y  confesionario en las dos lenguas más generales que corren en la Provincia de Cuyo, which has two treaties, one Millcayac and other Allentiac. To describe the volumen, first, we place it in Valdivia’s production. Secondly, we study the history of Huarpe people and their languages, Millcayac and Allentiac. Subsequently, we describe the pilgrimage of the fragments of this edition  hitherto  known.  Finally,  as  research  proposals,  we  present  this  volume,  compared  with Valdivia’s work on mapudungun (1606) and III Provincial Council of Lima’s “complemen-tos pastorales” (1584-1585).