The study of proverbs has been built by a number of notable scholars and contributors. Earlier scholars were more concerned with collecting than analyzing. Desiderius Erasmus was a Latin scholar (1466 – 1536), whose collection of Latin proverbs, known as "Adagia", spread Latin proverbs across Europe. Juan de Mal Lara was a 16th century Spanish scholar, one of his books being 1568 "Philosophia vulgar", the first part of which contains one thousand and one sayings. Hernán Núñez published a collection of Spanish proverbs (1555).