Details

Subjects:

Universidad de Alcalá.
Education, Higher -- Spain -- 18th century.
Universities and colleges -- Spain -- 18th century.
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher.
Spain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Autographs.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Text covers f. 1r-71r. Signed by the author on f. 71r. (Zacour-Hirsch mistakenly says f. 7). First unnumbered leaf after f. 71 is a folded leaf containing a chronology table of the University. It has the heading: "Plan que manifiesta el estado sucesivo de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares desde su mas remoto principio hasta el presente año de 1798 con toda distincion respecto á su particular establecimiento."

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. iv recto). Spine title: Estado de la Univers[idad] de Alcala.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 78 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-71, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf. Corners of cover boards are worn. Hinges slightly worn. A few small worm holes in cover.
Origin: Written in Alcalá de Henares, 18 June 1798 (f. 71r).

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1963.

Cited in:

Described 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), pp. 144-5 (Ms. Spanish 44).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 164

OCLC:

155962726