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.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

León Pinelo, Antonio de, 1590 or 1591-1660.

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Consejo de Indias (Spain)

Standardized Title:

Relación que en el Consejo Real de las Indias hizo el licenciado Antonio de León Pinelo sobre la pacificación y población de las provincias de Manché y Lacandon

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Vera Ordoñez de Villaquiran, Diego de.

Lacandon Indians--History--Early works to 1800.

Lacandon Indians.

Mopan Indians--History--Early works to 1800.

Mopan Indians.

Indians of Mexico--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Central America.

History.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Mexico.

Guatemala--History--To 1821.

Guatemala.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Penn 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.

Physical Description:

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

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 213

Other Title:

Próspero ó Lacandon

Place of Publication:

New York, 1872.

Language Note:

Spanish.

Biography/History:

Peruvian-born jurist and historian.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Ms. gatherings.

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).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 225 (no. 2405).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 213

OCLC:

183421385