Image: Batalla de Cempoala, en el folio 258r
Description: Depiction of the Battle of Cempoala in the Manuscrito de Glasgow (Glasgow Manuscript), a 16th-century Mexican manuscript which contains the work Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala (Description of the city and province of Tlaxcala) by Diego Muñoz Camargo. The scene shows the moment Pánfilo de Narváez, the Spanish captain sent from Cuba to arrest captain Hernán Cortés in Mexico, is defeated and captured by the forces of Cortés in May 1520. Many of the manuscript's illustrations are a copy of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, a Tlaxcalan manuscript que depicts the Spanish conquest of Mexico which is currently lost.
Title: Batalla de Cempoala, en el folio 258r
Credit: University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections: https://lienzotlaxcala.wordpress.com/manuscrito-de-glasgow/
Author: Manuscript and copy of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala by Diego Muñoz Camargo. Original Lienzo de Tlaxcala by an unknown artist.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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