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Se trata del "Curso de fortificación" de la Real Academia de Matemticas de Barcelona, realizado por el Ingeniero Militar Luis Marquely ; Las h. de lm. intercaladas entre las h.: 5-6, 17-18, 18-19, 22-23, 24-25, 27-28, 31-32, 41-42, 45-46, 46-47, 48-49, 51-52 y 77-78 ; Incipit: "Tratado quto de la fortificacion. Es la fortificacion la parte mas principal del arte militar, tiene esta p[or] objeto disponer un recinto con tal industria q[ue] pocos puedan defenderse y resistirse contra la invasion de muchos." (fol. 2 r.) ; Explicit: ". Otras muchas proposiciones se hacen p[ero] de qualquier suerte se deben proponer y aceptar con toda claridad y distincion sin dar lugar a equivocacion o fraude y se firman de una y otra parte; no permitiendo q[ue] en el tiempo de las capitulaciones se trabaje en la mina ni en el campo. Fin" (fol. 102 v.) ; 59912

This film documents the violence and terror in Punjab, India--a land torn apart by religious fundamentalists and a repressive government. After examining the political turmoil of the late 1970's and the rise of Sikh fundamentalism, the film focuses on the legacy of Bhagat Singh, a young socialist executed by the British in 1931 at the age of 23. Singh has since become a legend. Today the State eulogizes him as a nationalist while Sikh separatists portray him as a Sikh militant. In fact, Singh was neither. Just prior to his death he wrote a book which he entitled "Why I Am An Atheist." In strife-torn Punjab a band of brave Sikhs and Hindus carry Bhagat Singh's secular legacy from village to village. In the religiously charged countryside ideas of internationalism and secularism now carry a price