Primary Sources: Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal: Spain

Primary sources in microfilm and book form at the Cornell University Libraries.

Full list of Spanish newspapers available at Cornell

Travel brochures, city guides, maps, books of views, postcards, and related materials documenting world cities and tourism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Montes collection also includes more than 1,000 books (cataloged separately) on world cities and urban areas, the majority published between 1798 and 1960. Contains approximately 200 items from Spain.

Manuscript patent of Nobility (heavily illuminated) granted to Diego Gonca̧lez, Vezino del Lugar de Betares, dated 1563 (inscribed, with Latin text, in the ring surrounding the coat of arms on f. 2v, and in the text in Spanish on f. 31r), written on vellum. To this main document, bound with a cord made of red, gold, blue, and silver threads, a bifolium has been appended with three additional documents, each signed and dated: 1563 (ff. 32v, 33r) and 1564 (33v).

This major academic portal provides access to thousands of full-text literary works of historic and contemporary Spanish and Latin American authors as well as providing critical background and analysis.

Listen to this work read in Spanish while reading it in paleographic or normative transcription or English translation. NOTE: Requires specific browser/software specifications.

Digitized access to La Novela Mundial, a series of popular fiction published by Rivadeneyra in Madrid between 1926 and 1928.