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Colonial-Era Spanish Language Resources

 

The resource list below provides links to digital images of original 18th and early 19th-century dictionaries and Spanish grammar texts, focusing on those that will assist English-speakers in reading and understanding historical documents from the Spanish colonial era.  In addition, these texts provide an opportunity for even native Spanish-speakers to explore the nuances of linguistic change that have occurred during the past three centuries, most notably in the area of vocabulary, including many words no longer in use.  Apart from the searchable index of Spanish-Spanish dictionaries (below), all other texts are freely available on Google Books.

Spanish-Spanish Dictionaries

1726-present - All historical Spanish dictionaries are conveniently searchable with digital images of the original pages at the Nuevo Tesoro Lexografico de la Lengua Espanola (click search button at top left, then enter search term in box entitled "Lema")

Spanish-English Dictionaries

1778 - A Dictionary: Spanish and English and English and Spanish, by Joseph Baretti (Spanish-English volume only)

1786 - Diccionario Español e Ingles, by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (Volume 1, Spanish-English only)

1797-1798 - Diccionario Nuevo de las dos Lenguas Española é Inglesa, by Thomas Connelly and Thomas Higgins (Part 1, Vol. 1, English-English, 1798)
                     Diccionario Nuevo de las dos Lenguas Española é Inglesa, (Part 1, Vol. 2, Spanish-Spanish, 1798)
                     Diccionario Nuevo de las dos Lenguas Española é Inglesa, (Part 2, Vol. 1, Spanish-English, 1797)
                     Diccionario Nuevo de las dos Lenguas Española é Inglesa, (Part 2, Vol. 2, English-Spanish, 1797)

1800 - A Dictionary: Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, by Joseph Baretti (two parts in single-volume)

1802 - A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, by Henry Neuman (Part 1, Spanish-English)
            A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, by Henry Neuman (Part 2, English-Spanish)

1803 - Nuevo Diccionario Portatil, Español é Ingles, by C.M. Gattel (Part 1, Spanish-English)
            The New Pocket Dictionary of the English and Spanish Languages, by C.M. Gattel (Part 2, English-Spanish)

1809 - A Dictionary: Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, by Joseph Baretti (Vol. 1, Spanish-English)
            A Dictionary: Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, by Joseph Baretti (Vol. 2, English-Spanish)

1811 - The First Dictionary of Two Languages under a Single Alphabet / Primer Diccionario de Dos Lenguas Bajo de Un Solo Alfabeto, Ingles y Español,
            by Felipe Fernández (single volume, single alphabet)

1827 - Diccionario Portátil Español-Ingles, Compuesto Sobre las Ultimas Ediciones de Neuman e Baretti (two parts in single volume)

1831-1837 - Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the English and Spanish Languages, revised by Mateo Seoane (Vol. 1, Spanish-English, 1837)
                     Diccionario de las Lenguas Española é Inglesa de Neuman y Baretti, revised by Mateo Seoane (Vol. 2, English-Spanish, 1831)

1832-1836 - Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the English and Spanish Languages (Vol. 1, Spanish-English, 1832)
                     Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the English and Spanish Languages (Vol. 2, English-Spanish, 1836)

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