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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spain. Sovereign (1788-1808 : Charles IV)

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Latin America.

Church and state.

Latin America.

Law--Spain.

Law.

Spain.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Reales cedulas curiosas PU

Fingerprint:

ando onen s-ta s,se (C) 1805 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Spain] : [publisher not identified], [1805]

Notes:

At head of title: El Rey.

Signed, "Yo El Rey."

Dated, partially in manuscript, August 12, 1805.

Royal seals on first and last page.

Sets forth the rules to be followed in the secularization of missions and monasteries in America, which movement was depopulating the missions set up at much cost to the royal exchequer.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy is item 38 in a vol. of 44 items bound together with spine title: Reales cedulas curiosas.

Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea.

Lea Library copy has ms. preface on leaves prior to main text, entitled "Copia de los R.s Decretos enpedidos al R.l y supreme Consejo de Castilla, en 22 de Sep.re de 1746. noticiandole S.M. la creacion del Govierno Politico, y Militar de Madrid, y su Jurisdicion, que comprehenden las preheminencias, exemciones, y facultades del concedidas."

Lea Library copy has royal stamp on first printed leaf and verso of last printed leaf; ms. date is filled in on last printed leaf.

OCLC:

70639405