Arte, y vocabulario en la lengua general del Peru llamada Quichua, y en la lengua española
Subtitle: El mas copioso y elegante que hasta agora se ha impresso
Contributors: Bertonio, Ludovico, 1555-1628; Bárcena, Alonso, 1528-1598; Domingo de Santo Tomás, fray, 1499-1570; González Holguín, Diego, 1552-; Torres Rubio, Diego de, 1547-1638
Publisher: Por Antonio Ricardo
Published: 1586
Place of publication: En Los Reyes [i.e. Lima]
Language: spa; que
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Grammar; Quechua language; Spanish; Quechua; Dictionaries; Indian linguistics; Spanish language
Other titles: Arte, y vocabvlario en la lengva general del Perv llamada Quichua, y en la lengua española.; Arte, y vocabulario en la lengua general del Peru llamada Quechua, y en la lengua española.; Arte, y vocabvlario en la lengva general del Perv llamada Quechua, y en la lengua española.
Notes: Authorship variously attributed to: Ludovico Bertonio, Francisco del Canto, Domingo de Santo Tomás, Diego González Holguín, Diego de Torres Rubio, and to Alfonso Bárcena.

Includes three parts: dictionary and phrases from Quechua to Spanish (leaves A1-K8 and L1-4, 1st count); dictionary and phrases from Quechua to Spanish (leaves A1-L8 and M1-4, 1st count); and a section on grammar (leaves 1-40, signed 2A1-2E8, 3rd count)

Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-K⁸ L⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴ 2A-2E⁸

Includes woodcut vignette of the coat of arms of the dedicatee, don Fernando de Torres y Portugal, viceroy of Peru, on title page; initial.

Sabin 67160.

Leclerc, C. Bib. Americana, 2993.

Medina, J.T. Lima 4.

Medina, J.T. Bibliografía de las lenguas quechua y aymará 6.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Imp. peruanos, 5.

Viñaza, C.M. Bib. española de lenguas indígenas de América, 82.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting title page leaf and all but one preliminary leaf ([par.] gathering 1-8); Dictionary and phrases from Quechua to Spanish (leaves A1-K8 and L1-4, 1st count) wanting leaves A1-A3, B2, B7, and G3-G6; Dictionary and phrases from Quechua to Spanish (leaves A1-L8 and M1-4, 2nd count) wanting leaves H3-H6 and H8; Grammar (leaves 1-40, signed 2A1-2E8) wanting all after leaf 23, leaves 2C8, 2D1, and 2D3-2E8, with leaves H3-H6 replaced by leaves T2-T5 from the 1614 edition of the work. Many leaves repaired, mounted or tipped in, and stained; text block closely trimmed at head with some loss of text. Title page transcription supplied by image in Medina, Lima and signature statement supplied by the Library of Congress.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later full limp vellum with remnants of button and loop ties; front cover is chipped at head and foot; front hinge split.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown, Bromsen, and St. Mariana Funds.