The Spanish-Latin source of the Trilingual Spanish-Latin-Nahuatl Vocabulary (Newberry Library, Ayer, no. 1478)

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of dating the Spanish-Latin source of the Trilingual Spanish-Latin-Nahuatl Vocabulary preserved in the Newberry Library of Chicago, ms. Ayer Collection, no. 1478. The point of view adopted is to place this unique vocabulary in the context of the development of the history of linguistics, that is, considering it as another attempt to adapt the Nebrija vocabularies that, from 1492 and c.1494, are disseminated and revised, giving rise to multiple editions. Based on the identification of the source of the Trilingual Vocabulary and the source of the Molina Vocabulary (1555), a series of considerations are made regarding the possible dating of the manuscript.