Colonial-Era Spanish Language Resources

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1499 - Vocabularium Ecclesiasticum, by Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (Latin-Spanish only)

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1513 - Vocabularius, by Elio Antonio Nebrija (Latin-Spanish and Spanish-Latin)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1549 - Dictionaire Francoislatin, by Robert Estienne

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1550 - Dictionarium Latinohispanicum, et Vice Versa Hispanicolatinum, by Elio Antonio Nebrija (Latin-Spanish and Spanish-Latin)

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1556 - Diccionarium Ecclesiasticum, by Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (Latin-Spanish only)

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1556 - Vocabularium Ecclesiasticum, by Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (Latin-Spanish only)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1558 - Gramática Castellana: Arte breve y compendiosa para saber hablar y escrevir en la lengua Castellana congrua y deçentemente, by Christóbal de Villalón

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1559 - Gramática de la Lengua Vulgar de España, by Bartholomé Gravio

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1572 - Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino Hispanicum, by Diego Ximénez Arias (Latin-Spanish only)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1581 - Nueua y sutil invencion, en seys instrumentos, intitulado juego y exercicio de letras de las serenissimas infantas doña Ysabel y doña Catalina de Austria, by Pedro de Guevara

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1589 - Libro y Tratado para Enseñar Leer y Escrivir, by Juan de la Cuesta

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1599 - Libro muy vtil y prouechoso para aprender la latinidad en el cual se pone en practica el modo de construir los autores: con un vocabulario de las partes exteriores y interiores del hombre,, by Miguel Navarro (includes extremely detailed Latin-Spanish dictionary relative to the human body and related topics)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1600-1700? - Gramática Latina (anonymous manuscript text)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1606 - Thrésor de la Langue Françoyse, tant Ancienne que Moderne, by Aimar de Ranconnet

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1608 - Arte de Escrevir, by Francisco Lucas

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1609 - Ortografía Castellana, by Mateo Alemán

French Colonial Language Resources: 1609 - Le Grand Dictionnaire Françoise-Latin, by Jacques du Puys

Spanish-Spanish Dictionaries: 1611 - Tesoro de la Lengua Castellana, o Española, by Sebastián de Cobarruvias Orozco (selection of Spanish words with meanings and brief discussions of their origins and usage; equivalent to a limited etymological dictionary)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1611 - A Dictionary of the French and English Tongues, by Randle Cotgrave (French-English only, A-Z)

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1613 - Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino Hispanicum, by Diego Ximénez Arias (Latin-Spanish only)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1614 - Epitome de la Ortografia Latina y Castellana, by Bartolomé Ximénez Patón

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1622 - Declaración de las Reglas que Pertenecen a la Sintaxis, para el uso de los Nombres, y construccion de los Verbos, by Juan de Mendoça y Luna

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1623 - A Dictionary in Spanish and English, by John Minsheu

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1628 - Thesaurus Verborum, ac Phrasium, ad Orationem ex Hispana Latinam Efficiendam, & Locupletandam, by Bartholomé Bravo (Spanish-Latin only; includes section on Latin Orthography at end)

Spanish-Spanish Dictionaries: 1640 - Tesoro de la Lengua Castellana, o Española, by Sebastián de Cobarruvias Orozco

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1644 - Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino Hispanicum, by Diego Ximénez Arias (Latin-Spanish only)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1646 - Advertencias para mayor noticia de la gramatica, y reduzir al vso y exercicio los preceptos della, by Pedro de Carrera

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1650 - Primera Parte del Arte de Escrivir Todas Formas de Letras, by Joseph de Casanova

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1671 - Compendium Latino-Hispanum Utriusque Lingua Veluti Lumen, by Pedro de Salas (Latin-Spanish Only)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1671 - The New World of Words: Or a General English Dictionary, by Edward Phillips (A-Z, 5th Ed.)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1672 - Gramatica Muda de Gramatica latina en las aulas de Ortografia y Prosodia, by Manuel Sánchez de Arbustante

Spanish-Spanish Dictionaries: 1673-1674 - Primera Parte / Segunda Parte del Tesoro de la Lengua Castellana, o Española, by Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco

French Colonial Language Resources: 1673 - A French and English Dictionary, composed by Mr. Randle Cotgrave, with another in English and French, by James Howell (French-English, English-French, A-Z)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1675 - Explicación Facil, Breve, y Elegante de las Quatro Partes de la Gramática, by Santiago de Villafañe de la Payana y Yebra

English Colonial Language Resources: 1675 - An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey (A-Z, 21st Ed.)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1675 - Dictionarium Minus: A Compendius Dictionary, English-Latin & Latin-English, by Christopher Wase (2nd Ed.)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1677 - A Large Dictionary, in Three Parts, by Thomas Holyoke (English-Latin, Latin-English)

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1679 - Thesaurus Hispano-Latinus Utriusque Linguae, Verbis et Phrasibus Abundans, by Balthazar Henriquez (Spanish-Latin only)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1694 - Dictionnaire Etymologique ou Origines de la Langue Françoise, by Gilles Ménage and Pierre de Caseneuve

French Colonial Language Resources: 1694 - Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, by l'Adacemie Françoise

French Colonial Language Resources: 1696 - Le Grand Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, by l'Adacemie Françoise

English Colonial Language Resources: 1706 - The New World of Words: Universal English Dictionary, by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (A-Z, 6th Ed.)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1708 - Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: Or, a General English Dictionary, by John Kersey (A-Z)

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1714 - Thesaurus Hispano-Latinus, Utriusque Linguae Dives Opum, et Phrasibus Abundans, by Bartolomé Bravo (Spanish-Latin only)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1715 - The Royal Dictionary Abridged, in two parts, by Abel Boyer (French-English, English-French)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1718 - Nouveau Dictionnaire de L'Academie Françoise, by l'Adacemie Françoise

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1719 - Arte Nuevo de Escribir por Preceptos Geométricos y Reglas Mathemáticas, by Juan Claudio Aznar de Polanco

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1720 - Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino-Hispanicum, by Diego Ximénez Arias (Latin-Spanish only)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1720 - The New World of Words: Universal English Dictionary, by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (A-Z, 7th Ed.)

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1725 - A Vocabulary, in Six Languages; viz. English, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portugues, after a New Method to Shew the Dependance of the four last upon the Latin, and their mutual Analogy to each other, by R. John Andree (a limited but multi-lingual comparative glossary)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1725 - A New Spanish Grammar, by John Stephens

Spanish-Spanish Dictionaries: 1726-1739 - Diccionario de Autoridades (fully searchable text-based version of the original official dictionary of Spanish by the Real Academia Española)

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1726 - A New Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, by John Stephens.

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1727 - Thesaurus Hispano-Latinus Utriusque Linguae Verbis, et Phrasibus Abundans, by Valeriano Requejo (Spanish-Latin only)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1727 - Dictionaire Royal: François-Anglois et Anglois-François, by Abel Boyer

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1730 - Ortografía Española, by Antonio Bordazar de Artazú

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1730 - Ortographía Latina,, by Antonius Bordazar de Artazu

English Colonial Language Resources: 1730 - Diccionarium Britanicum: or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary than any Extant, by Nathan Bailey (A-Z)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1731 - An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey (A-Z, 5th Ed.)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1731 - The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey (Vol. 2, A-Z, 2nd Ed.)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1735 - Reglas de Ortografía en la Lengua Castellana, by Antonio de Lebrija

English Colonial Language Resources: 1736 - Diccionarium Britanicum: or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary than any Extant, by Nathan Bailey (A-Z, 2nd Ed.)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1739 - Nuevo Methodo, de la Construcción, de los Authores Latinos de Prosa, i Verso, de todas las Edades de la Lengua Latina, by Juan Francisco Pastor Abalos y Mendoza

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1740 - A New Dictionary, Spanish and English and English and Spanish, by Peter Pineda.

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1743 - Suma de Tiempos, y Otros Rudimentos de la Gramática, cono se enseña en las Escuelas de la Compañia de Jesus, con un Abecedario de los Verbos, , by Ignacio de los Valles and Jayme Rufas

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1744 - Gramática Castellana, by Antonio de Lebrija

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1744 - Vocabularium Seu Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino-Hispanicum, by Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (Latin-Spanish only)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1751 - Epitome de la Orthographia Castellana, by Joseph Blasi

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1751 - A Short and Compendious Method for the Learning to Speak, Read, and Write, the English and Spanish Language, by Peter Pineda

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1752 - Breve Modo de Aprender Grammática, en Diálogo, by Pedro Antonio Martínez de Cabredo

English Colonial Language Resources: 1756 - A Dictionary of the English Language, V. 1, by Samuel Johnson

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1757 - Thesaurus Hispano-Latinus, Utriusque Linguae Verbis et Phrasibus Abundans, by Bartolomé Bravo (Spanish-Latin only)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1760 - A New General English Dictionary, by Thomas Dyche and William Pardon (A-Z, 11th Ed.)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1760 - A New Complete English Dictionary, by D. Bellamy, Mr. Gordon, etc. (A-Z, 2nd Ed.)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1762 - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, by l'Adacemie Françoise

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1763 - A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, by Joseph Giral Delpino.

English Colonial Language Resources: 1764 - A New, Complete, and Universal English Dictionary, by Daniel Bellamy (A-Z, 4th Ed.)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1765 - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, by l'Adacemie Françoise

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1766 - Tratado del Origen, y Arte de Escribir Bien, by Luis de Olod

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1769 - Quatro Libros de la Lengua Latina, o Arte de Gramatica, by Pedro Simón Abril

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1770 - Ortografía de la Lengua Castellana, by the Real Academia Española

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1770 - Vocabularium Seu Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino-Hispanicum, by Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (Latin-Spanish only)

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1776 - Arte Nueva de Escribir, Inventada por el Insigne Maestro Pedro Díaz Morante, by Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1777 - A New Spanish Grammar; or, the Elements of the Spanish Language, by Joseph Giral del Pino

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

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1781 - Gramática de Lengua Castellana, by the Real Academia Española

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1785 - Compendium Latino-Hispanum Utriusque Lingua Veluti Lumen, by Pedro de Salas (Latin-Spanish Only)

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

French Colonial Language Resources: 1786 - Nouveau Dictionnaire François-Espagnol, by Nicolas de Séjournant (Vol. 2, French-Spanish, 1786)

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1787 - Gramática Laconica, o Epitome de la Lengua Latina, by Ignacio del Campo

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1789 - Arte de Escribir, by Estevan Ximénez

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1789 - Vocabularium Seu Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino-Hispanicum, by Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (Latin-Spanish only)

French Colonial Language Resources: 1789 - Nouveau Dictionnaire François-Espagnol, by Nicolas de Séjournant (Vol. 1, Spanish French, 1789)

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1791 - Compendio del Arte de Escribir por Reglas y sin Muestras, by Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1792 - A New Spanish Grammar, or The Elements of the Spanish Language, by Raymundo del Puego

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1795 - Arte de Escribir por Reglas y sin Muestras, Establecido de Orden Superior en los Reales Sitios de San Ildefonso yValsian, by Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1796 - Grámatica de la Lengua Castellana Dirigida á las Escuelas, by Joseph Pablo Ballot

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1797-1798 - Diccionario Nuevo de las dos Lenguas Española é Inglesa, by Thomas Connelly and Thomas Higgins

Spanish Handwriting (in Spanish): 1798 - Arte de Escribir por Reglas y con Muestras segun la Doctrina de los Mejores Autores Antiguos y Modernos, Estrangeros y Nacionales, by Torquato Torio de la Riva y Herrero

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1798 - Lexicon Ecclesiasticum Latino-Hispanicum, by Diego Ximénez Arias (Latin-Spanish only)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1799 - Elementos de Gramática Castellana, Ortografía, Calografía, y Urbanidad, para uso de los Discípulos de las Escuelas Pías, by Santiago Delgado de Jesús y María

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

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1802 - A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, by Henry Neuman

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 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)

English Colonial Language Resources: 1806 - A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language, by John Walker (A-Z, 2nd American Edition)

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1809 - A Dictionary: Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, by Joseph Baretti

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1810 - A new, easy, and complete grammar of the Spanish language, Commercial and Military, by John Emmanuel Mordente

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 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

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1817 - Compendio de la Gramática de la Real Academia Española, by Juan Cau y Aner

Latin Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1817 - Esplicacion de Oraciones, Preceptos, y Reglas Pertenecientes a la Gramática Latina, by Juan Francisco de Corcuera

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1822 - A Grammar of the Spanish Language, by Auguste-Louis Josse, revised by Francis Sales

Latin-Spanish Dictionaries: 1822 - Diccionario Universal Español-Latino, by Manuel de Valbuena (Spanish-Latin only)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1823 - Gramática de la Lengua Castellana, y Reducida a Diálogo, by José Garriga

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1826 - A New Spanish Grammar, by Mariano Cubi y Soler

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1827 - Diccionario Portátil Español-Ingles, Compuesto Sobre las Ultimas Ediciones de Neuman e Baretti

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1829 - Lecciones de Gramática Castellana, by J. Herrera A. Alvear

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1831 - Diccionario de las Lenguas Española é Inglesa de Neuman y Baretti, revised by Mateo Seoane (Vol. 2, English-Spanish, 1831)

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

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1833 - A Grammar of the Spanish Language, by José de Alcalá

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

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1837 - Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the English and Spanish Languages, revised by Mateo Seoane (Vol. 1, Spanish-English, 1837)

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in Spanish): 1837 - Gramática Elemental de la Lengua Española, by Pascual Polo

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1838 - A Pocket Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Compiled from the Last Improved Editions of Neuman and Barretti (two parts in single volume)

Spanish-English Dictionaries: 1840 - Diccionario Portátil Español-Ingles, Compuesto Sobre las Ultimas Ediciones de Neuman e Baretti

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1841 - A New and Improved Spanish Grammar, by Luís Josef Antonio McHenry

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1844 - A Complete Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Spanish Language, by Emanuel del Mar

Spanish Grammar / Orthography (in English): 1848 - A First Book in Spanish; or, A Practical Introduction to the Study of the Spanish Language, by Joseph, by Joseph Salkeld