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Charles III Pragmatica-sancion

Archive Item: BC MS ROM 1/7/3/2

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Charles III Pragmatica-sancion

Level: Item

Classmark: BC MS ROM 1/7/3/2

Original reference: 38

Creator(s): Charles King of Spain (1716-1788)(Other); Spain. Sovereign (1759-1788 : Charles III)(Author)

Related people: Charles

Publisher: en la oficina de Doña Maria Espartosa y Briones

Publication city: Alcalá

Date(s): 1783

Language: Spanish

Size and medium: [15] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/295194

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

Description

Spanish official document referencing, "Gitanos," [Gypsy, Travellers & Roma] and punishment for vagrancy, titled, "Pragmatica-sancion en fuerza de ley en que se dan nuevas reglas para contener y castigar la vagancia de los que hasta aqui se han conocido con el nombre de Gitanos, ò Castellanos nuevos, con lo demás que expresa."


Signed by the king (Charles III) and council.


'Auto' and 'Publicacion' at end signed: Juan Antonio de Braojos.


Lower half of last leaf (A8) cut away, with loss of first part of a manuscript note concerning the proclamation of the edict in Alcalá. On the reverse is the conclusion, followed by the signature of the town clerk of Alcalá, Juan Francisco de los Rios, and a further note, in a different hand, also signed by him. Manuscript (handwritten) notes throughout [marginalia].

Provenance

There is a bookplate on the inside of the back cover that references the accession date as 19.4.[19]61


This was previously filed as a book under shelfmark BC Rom. It was re-catalogued as a document in 2016.


The description is mainly taken from the 1962 Romany Catalogue [unverified].

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