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LAURENCICH MINELLI*, Laura. Quipu and writing in ancient Peru. State of the art. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2016, vol.10, n.44, pp. 6-24. ISSN 1997-4485.

Summary The Inca writing and quipu during 16h-18^th century Peru are here examined according mostly to Jesuitical sources among which the recently discovered: Exsul Immeritus Blas Valera Populo Suo, 1618 (by F. Blas Valera) and Historia et Rudimenta Linguae Piruanorum, 17^th century (by the Italian B. Antonio Cumis and F. Anello Oliva). It results a complex system of Inca Colonial writing by numerological basis that some Jesuits were probably using in the Inca Christian "kingdom" of Paititi during the first time of Spanish Virreino: system which show the numerical and the literary quipu beeing the more important writing device with many functions among which the Pachaquipu and the Cequecuna as well as the unifying attempt in the Tahuantinsuyu of the Hananpacha and Pachamama by the numerical production.

Palabras llave : Inca writing; Paititi; Literary and numerical quipu; Numerology.