Scope and arrangement
Teatro de la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de la Muy Noble Cuidad de los Reyes is a survey and description of the archdiocese of Lima, Peru, written by Diego de Córdova Salinas. The archbishop of Lima, Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco, tasked Córdova with researching and writing the text after the king of Spain issued a royal decree in 1648 demanding a description of the archdiocese's territory. The work was completed in 1650.
This vellum-bound, 92-leaf folio signed by Córdova is dated 1650. In 1958, the text was published with an introduction and notes by Rubén Vargas Ugarte as volume 7 of the Biblioteca histórica peruana series (see link in Additional Resources).
Source: Tibesar, Antonine. The Americas 15, no. 3 (1959): 305–7.