Caption title. Title in Butler: "Dictionarium ex bismensi [sic] in latinum sermonem," with date of 1590. Attributed to Father Bernardino de Sahagún by Alfredo Chavero and others. Cf. J.F. Schwaller, "Guías de manuscritos en náhuatl," Estudios de cultura nahuatl 18 (1987): 326-27. For a different theory of authorship based on a study of the Newberry ms., see Mary L. Clayton, "A trilingual Spanish-Latin-Nahuatl manuscript dictionary sometimes attributed to Fray Bernardino de Sahagún... Date from Schwaller. Clayton suggests earlier dates of 1530-1625. Miscellaneous notes in Spanish and Nahuatl on the seven deadly sins added later, leaves [1]-[2]. Ownership inscription of E.E. Ayer on front endpaper; other owners include: José Fernando Ramírez and Alfredo Chavero. Corresponds to second part of Nebrija's Dictionarium hispano-latinum, printed in Salamanca in 1495. Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection at the Newberry Library.
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