The university of Córdoba del Tucumán — degrees on the far edge of the Indies

A cattle-and-mule town founded in 1573 in Comechingón country carried, within fifty years, higher studies open to poor clerics and laymen without inheritance and a house authorised to confer degrees. Alcedo's 1786 dictionary records two colegios "con título de Universidad"; Concolorcorvo in 1773 finds Franciscans running it and issuing degrees to the three provinces of Tucumán. Both pages are read from the scans, and the sources' own frame is printed with them.