El Real Seminario de Minería
1808 manuscript
The Real Seminario de Minería was founded 1 January 1792 in the Hospicio de San Nicolás and is now [part of] the Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. We have not yet established any record concerning the author of this document, Juan Maria Muñoz
Document approx 300pp, 1 3/8" thick w/o boards, manuscript, 8vo (8 1/2" x 6"), many pages faded to illegibility, 4 blank back endpaper pages filled with more recent mining? sketches, sewn binding broken, paper fragile, stain evidence of water/damp which has also caused page edge uneveness; boards not original, possibly earlier, very light pigskin? [texture is near vellum], very slightly shorter than manuscript (boards marked D. Bonaventure Sermon and ?, with inside note, pencilled C19/20th, 3vol, Bale, 1502, Hain 3473)
First page as follows:Tomo 2o Que comprende la Hydrodinamia S... incluido? ???metria Geometria Sub... terrania ?? otras bonita cosas ql? Vera? el curiose aprecado? lector percuciente? à en??? El dueño es el Alumno de Rl. Seminario de Mineria Juan Maria Muñoz Bueno y Car... Non deliciae, sed virtutes proponendae Son siempre de Minervalas pri???? Estudiar la virtud, no las delices?
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The date, 14 August 1808, appears on the last original page (more recent sketches follow)
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