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Tesoro de la lengua guarani.
Madrid: Juan Sanchez, 1639
Physical Description: [8], 271, 278-407, [1] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to)
Call number: BA639/ R934t
Accession number: 02640
Notes: Begins with brief “Advertencias para la inteligencia desta segunda parte de la lengua guarani” (leaves [1]-2r), containing summary remarks in Spanish on Guarani morphology, etymology, pronunciation, rhetoric, etc. The Guarani-Spanish dictionary (leaves 3-407), with caption title “Tesoro de la lengua guarani. Segunda parte”, lists several thousand entries in Guarani with Spanish equivalents and glosses as well as many examples of usage in Guarani. Author's Spanish-Guarani dictionary appeared in the following year with his Guarani grammar, with the title: “Arte, y vocabulario de la lengua guarani” and caption title "Vocabulario de la lengua guarani. Parte primera".
Languages: Guarani language
Genre: Dictionary
Region: Spanish America
