Resumen de Towards a Typology of the Primers for Learning to Read (Spain, c. 1496-1825)
From the fifteenth to the nineteenth century and even later, the first school book put into the hands of Western children, that from which the rudiments of reading were learned, was found under a variety of names (primer, ABC, alfabeta, beceroles, cartillas, cartilhas, Christus, la croix par Dieu, santacroce,fibel,...), underlying which is a format which is generally similar with respect to size, 4° or 8°, number of pages, 8 or 16, structure and content. This text outlines a typology of the primers ("cartillas") printed in the territories of the Spanish monarchy from the first known primerprinted around 1496 up until 1825. S aid typology distinguishes three periods. The first, characterised by diversity of typographical forms and texts, runs from 1496 until the concession to the Collegiate Church ofValladolid, in 1583, of a Charter for printing and sale of the primers in the Castillian Kingdom. The second, from 1583 to 1789, supposed the implantation in said Kingdom of the standardised model imposed by the Cathedral of Valladolid. And the third, from 1789 until the revocation of the Charter in 1825 would signify the questioning of the privilege, its infringement, the appearance of exceptions and finally its abolition
