The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his grammatical work focuses on Latin, Castillian, Greek and even Hebrew. Moreover, his (bilingual) lexicographical studies combine Spanish, Latin, French, Catalan and Italian. In addition, there are medical dictionaries, dictionnaries of law, works on the Holy Bible, geographical research, treatises on rhethoric and history as well as on many other areas of contemporary knowledge. Most of these works have been published for allmost five centuries, thus inspiring European and missionary linguistics as well as Western philological traditions. They have served as models and sources for a great number and range of studies conducted and published not only in Spain, but nearly all over the world. Apart from the original version of Nebrija's works, numerous copies, also continuously produced during the past centuries, are accessible in international libraries.
Many of these copies possess a great bibliographical value. The Bibliografia Nebrisense is a catalogue, listing the different editions of Nebrija's highly diversified oeuvre. It provides information on the technical caracteristics of the individual editions and their respective locations. A complete bio-bibliographical study is added together with an exhaustive listing of secondary sources.El humanista espanol Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) fue autor de una ingente obra que abarco los mas variados campos de los saberes humanisticos y en la que, ademas, estaban implicadas no solo latin y espanol, sino las principales lenguas romanicas.
Sus obras de tema gramatical, donde se encuentran latin, castellano, griego o hebreo; sus repertorios lexicograficos bilingues, donde se combinan espanol, latin, frances, catalan e italiano; sus diccionarios especializados de medicina, derecho, Sagrada Escritura o geografia, junto con sus trabajos sobre retorica, historia o tantos otros aspectos particulares que llamaron la atencion del humanista han sobrevivido hasta nuestros dias y durante mas de cinco siglos han ejercido una influencia enorme en toda la linguistica y la tradicion filologica occidental: sirvieron de modelo o de fuente para multitud de trabajos posteriores, no solo en Espana. Las obras de Nebrija, en fin, fueron ininterrumpidamente editadas y ejemplares de todas ellas, a veces de valor incalculable desde el punto de vista bibliografico, andan repartidos por bibliotecas de todo el mundo. La Bibliografia Nebrisense es un catalogo que reune y describe estas ediciones, informando de sus caracteristicas y paradero. Se anade, ademas, un completo estudio bio-bibliografico y una relacion exhaustiva de fuentes secundarias.