Vocabulario En Lengua De Mechuacan

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Author: Maturino Gilberti (1498?-1585) Year: 1990 Publisher: Condomex Place: Mexico City Description: xvi+180+[iii] pages with illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in quarter leather with four raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine over brown pebbled boards. Reprint of the first edition of 1559. Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan is a landmark 1559 bilingual dictionary of the Purépecha (Tarascan) and Spanish languages, compiled by the French Franciscan friar Maturino Gilberti. Printed in Mexico City by Juan Pablos, it is one of the earliest printed dictionaries of an Indigenous language in the Americas and remains a foundational text for historical linguistics and Mesoamerican ethnohistory. Fray Maturino Gilberti (1498–1585) authored the work to aid Catholic missionaries working in the Michoacán region. It was printed on September 7, 1559, in Mexico City by Juan Pablos, who operated the first printing press in the New World. The book is divided into two distinct sections arranged in double columns. The first section translates Purépecha (then referred to as lengua de Mechuacán or Tarascan) into Spanish, and the second section translates Spanish into Purépecha. Much like Alonso de Molina's contemporaneous Nahuatl dictionary, Gilberti's vocabulary documented the language of the Purépecha Empire, a major rival to the Aztecs. Scholars rely on the dictionary not only to study 16th-century Purépecha grammar and lexicon, but also as a rich source of historica

• Binding: Hardcover

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