Details

Subjects:

Education, Higher -- Spain -- 17th century.
Universities and colleges -- Spain -- 17th century.
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher.
Spain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Catalan.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Catalan.

Summary:

Regulations of the University of Majorca. Signed by the rector of the University, Dr. Ramon Sureda (f. 6r). At the end (f. 8r) there is a manuscript copy of a Latin document of King Philip that relates to the University.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Cover title: Ordinations de las Escoles etta.
Foliation: Paper, 12; [i, 1-11]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 9-10 are uncut at the top edge.
Script: Written in a cursive script by more than one hand.
Binding: Wrapped and sewn into a folded printed leaf of a document in Latin from the University of Majorca dated 1672. Upper cover signed by Sr. Jamea Bally. Cover wrapper worn and torn in places. One small burned spot. Leaves containing the text are slightly worn and frayed at the edges but otherwise in good condition.
Origin: Probably written in Palma de Mallorca, 13 May 1671 (f. 6r).

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: Porter Libros, Barcelona (blank paper leaf wrapped around the manuscript bears the seal of Porter Libros).

Cited in:

Not in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), or any of its Supplements. This item was mistakenly given the shelf number Ms. Spanish 57, even though Supplement B to Zacour-Hirsch [in The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 22] already lists an item with that number (now UPenn Ms. Codex 168).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 172

Contributor:

Sureda, Ramon.
Bally, Jamea.

Contains:

Ordinations de las escoles.

OCLC:

155962763