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Vocabulario or Molina Dictionary
1555
Mexico
Franciscan Fray Alonso de Molina (Spanish, c. 1511–1584), author
Juan Pablo, printer
Juan Pablos, the first printer in the Americas, was a Spanish court printer who accompanied Antonio de Mendoza, the first Viceroy of Mexico, to the New World in 1534. The first book to appear from his press was a Spanish translation of a Latin devotional text, though no copy currently exists; the earliest Mexican book known to have survived dates from 1544. This book is the first edition of the first dictionary to be published in the New World. The Franciscan Fray Alonso de Molina, a linguist as well as a priest, prepared this “vocabulary” of the Spanish and the Nahuatl (or Aztec) tongues.
On loan from Marge Lamb
L1984.001.01