A detailed archival record of official interrogations under torture practiced in the secular High Court of the Audiencia de Quito (present-day Ecuador).
Creators: Judges, notaries, attorneys of the Audiencia de Quito, Baltazar Cárdenas, Luis Montesdoca.
Date of Creation: October 20, 1727.
Place of origin: Ecuador
Physical measurements: 45 folios (4 folios for the transcript) 20×30 cm.
Materials: Paper, iron gall ink
Process by which it was made: Handwriting
Current location: Archivo Nacional del Ecuador, Quito.
Further Reading
Burns, Kathryn. Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Dean, Carolyn (2009) “Beyond prescription: notarial doodles and other marks” Word & Image, 25:3, 293-316
Herzog, Tamar. Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System in Quito. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
Hull, Matthew. Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan. University of California Press, 2012
Sellers-García, Sylvia. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2014.
Information contributed by Agnieszka Czeblakow.