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NOTICE Historique de l' Université de Coimbre. Lisbonne. 1878. - NOTICE Historique de l' Université de Coimbre . Lisbonne: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878. [2], 186 pp.; 225 mm. Rare. A historical summary of the University of Coimbra, written in French and published on the occasion of the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition, part of a series of historical memoirs and accounts prepared by the Portuguese Commission to introduce the country's main institutions to the international public, which also includes, for example, the Mémoire sur la Bienfaisance Publique en Portugal , published in the same year and by the same Imprimerie Nationale. It traces the history of the oldest Portuguese university from its founding in Lisbon in 1290 by King Dinis, through its successive transfers between Lisbon and Coimbra throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, until its definitive establishment in Coimbra in 1537, by order of King João III. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate