The ''Vocabulario trilingüe'' (; Spanish for "trilingual vocabulary"; Ayer MS 1478) is an anonymous 16th-century
manuscript
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copy of the second edition (1516) of
Antonio de Nebrija
Antonio de Nebrija (14445 July 1522) was the most influential Spanish humanist of his era. He wrote poetry, commented on literary works, and encouraged the study of classical languages and literature, but his most important contributions were i ...
's
Spanish-Latin dictionary, which has been expanded by the addition of
Nahuatl
Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...
translations of its entries in red ink. The manuscript is currently held by the
Newberry Library
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in
Chicago
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,
Illinois
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, United States.
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Nahuatl dictionaries and grammars
Spanish words and phrases
16th-century books
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