Autor(es): Rafael Patrón-Sarti
Resumen:
Abstract:This essay offers enough documents to prove that the University of Mérida, in Yucatán, reunited three requirements to be considered so: it was founded by competent authorities, it counted with Royal and Vatican privileges and it granted recognized degrees with regularity. The transcription in 1770, by a Royal clerk, of a file of documents about the University that was sent by the Yucatán governor to the king, contributes to demonstrate the existence of the institution. In the section “Cartones” in this number, the reader will find some documents that belonged to this file.