William Stepney, The Spanish School-master (1591)
Date
1591
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
El Vocabvlario
Book title
The Spanish Schoole-master. Containing seven Dialogues according to euery day in the weeke, and what is necessarie euerie day to be done, wherein is also most plainly shewed the true and perfect pronunciation of the Spanish tongue, toward the furtherance of all those which are desirous to learne the said tongue within this our realme of England. Whereunto, besides seuen Dialogues, are annexed most fine Prouerbs and sentences, as also the Lords prayer, the Articles of our beliefe, the ten Commandements, and a Vocabularie, with diuers other things necessarie to be knowne in the said tongue
Publication place
London
Printer
R. Field
Publisher
John Harison
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Spanish
Summary
Spanish grammar, followed by English-Spanish dialogues and texts, and a vocabulary with topical word-groupings
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Spanish
explanations: Spanish
explanations: Spanish
explanations: Spanish
Extent
pages 184-252
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Of heauen DEl cielo
sample: Of heauen DEl cielo
Alston
XII.137
STC
23256
Other editions
1619: STC 23257 (revised by a new author; Alston XII.138);
1620: STC 23258a (Alston XII.139)
1620: STC 23258a (Alston XII.139)
Facsimiles
Stepney, William. The Spanish Schoolmaster, 1591. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 274. Menston: Scolar Press, 1971.
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Criticisms
Bourland, C. B. "The Spanish Schoole-master and the Polyglot Derivatives of Noel de Berlaimont's Vocabulaire." Revue Hispanique 81 (1933): 283-318.
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Ungerer, Gustav. "The Printing of Spanish Books in Elizabethan England." Series 5. The Library 20 (1965): 177-229. 203-04. view record
Fernández Urdaneta, Heberto H. "Dictionaries and Vocabularies in Spanish and English from 1554 to 1740: Their Structure and Development." Ph.D. dissertation (Université de Montréal). Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 68.12 (2008 (June)): 5050. 135-66. view record
Ungerer, Gustav. "The Printing of Spanish Books in Elizabethan England." Series 5. The Library 20 (1965): 177-229. 203-04. view record
Fernández Urdaneta, Heberto H. "Dictionaries and Vocabularies in Spanish and English from 1554 to 1740: Their Structure and Development." Ph.D. dissertation (Université de Montréal). Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 68.12 (2008 (June)): 5050. 135-66. view record
