Relacion que en el Consejo Real de las Indias hizo el licenciado Antonio de Leon Pinelo, relator de su altera : sobre la pacificacion, y poblacion de las provincias del Manché, i Lacandon, que pretende hazer Don Diego de Vera Ordoñez de Villaquiran, Cavallero de la Orden de Calatrava &c

Alternate Title:

Próspero ó Lacandon

Name:

León Pinelo, Antonio de, 1590 or 1591-1660; Consejo de Indias (Spain)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Spanish colony, 1540-1810; To 1821

Date:

1872

Description:

19th-century copy of the justification presented in 1639 in the Consejo de Indias, supreme governing body of Spain's colonies in America, for war against the Lacandon and Mopan Indians of Mexico and Guatemala, to be undertaken by Diego de Vera Ordoñez de Villaquiran.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied from a published version in the collection of E. G. Squier (1821-1888).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Vera Ordoñez de Villaquiran, Diego de; Lacandon Indians -- History -- Early works to 1800; Mopan Indians -- History -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Mexico -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Central America; Indians of Mexico; Mopan Indians; History; Lacandon Indians

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

29 leaves : paper; 339 x 224 (250 x 154) mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810; Mexico; Guatemala -- History -- To 1821; Guatemala

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. gatherings.; Peruvian-born jurist and historian.; Title from caption title (f. [1]r); paper cover has title El Próspero ó Lacandon (f. i recto).; This was the ninth of ten manuscripts and facsimiles formerly bound together, now disbound (Item 205-Item 214).; Collation: Paper, v + 22 + ii; 1⁵ (+1) 2-4⁶; foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 30 long lines.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Decoration: Ink drawings of Spain's royal arms (f. [17]r) and another coat of arms held by a crowned eagle surrounded by the motto "La verdad da la victoria tras que andamos la victoria da la gloria que esperamos" (f. 22r).; Origin: Copied in New York in 1872 (f. 22r).; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 213

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection