Antonio de Fuentelapeña was a Capuchin friar of the seventeenth century, author of three particular writings in which he emphasizes the treatise on the existence of fantastic creatures, El ente dilucidado (The entity elucidated). This peculiar book deals with the existence of goblins and gnomes, among other imaginary creatures, discussing...
Juan de Zabaleta was a Spanish chronicler and writer of the seventeenth century, who belonged to the court of King Felipe IV and wrote, among many other works, a treatise of customs where he described the vices and frequent characters in Madrid life and in the royal court. In this...
Princeton University has a large digital library made of excellent collections. Among these are the miscellany of Mesoamerican manuscripts coming from other collections: Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts Collection (C0744), Garrett Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0744), and Princeton Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0940). Among the manuscripts in custody are: el Chilam Balam de...
The book written by Juan de Horozco and Covarrubias, Emblemas morales, (Moral emblem) is the first emblematic book printed in Spain. Horozco belongs to a distinguished family of humanists and clerics who held important positions of power in the Spanish main courts. After the editio princeps, his book of emblems...
Art and vocabulary of the general language of Peru, called Quechua, and the Spanish language. The most copious and elegant, which has now been printed, was published in Lima, Peru, in 1614. The book provides a detailed description of Quechua, the predominant language of the Inca people. His introduction covers...
Grammatica and art nveva dela general lengva of all Peru, called Qquichua language, or language of the Inca was published in Lima, Peru, in 1607. This volume is one of the first records of a language that did not have a system written before the Spanish conquest. It is a...
Esta obra es la reproducción facsimilar, junto con una versión castellana, del más antiguo texto impreso acerca de la Universidad de México, escrito muy poco después de que esa institución inaugurara solemnemente sus cursos el día 3 de junio de 1553. Proporciona noticias sobre sus varias cátedras y quienes las...
Doctrina christiana, y catecismo para instrvccion de los indios, y de las de mas perʃonas, que han de ʃer enʃeñadas en nueʃtra ʃancta fé : con vn confessionario, y otras cosas neceʃʃarias se publicó en Lima, Perú, en 1584. Fue el primer libro impreso en América del Sur. Se trataba...
This dictionary comes entirely from the dictionary published by Fray Alonso de Molina in 1571 with the title of Diccionario náhuatl-español Basado en los diccionarios de Alonso de Molina con el náhuatl normalizado y el español modernizado, whose importance has been pondered numerous times, besides being the main source of...
The present edition of 1615, by Diego López, includes valuable elements for the dissemination of the work of Alciato in the Spanish world. The emblems by Alciato thanks to this edition (later reprinted at the end of the century), circulated with the Castilian version of the comments of the Brocense...