[Rarebooks] FS: Greek & Latin Jesuit texbook by a woman printer. Ingolstadt: 1614

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Nonnus Panopolitanus. ...CONVERSIO GRAECA EVANGELIISECUNDUM JOANNEM, in Latinum Sermonem ad Verbus Translata. In Usum ScholarumSocietatis Jesu. Ingolstadt: Elisabeth Angermaier for Johann Herstroi inMunich. 1614. 8vo. 291,(1)pp. Greek & Latin on opposite pages. Contemporarybinding of a 15th century vellum Latin ms. with marginal glossesover boards, lacking ties.            $375.00(trade discount allowed)
ThisBiblical paraphrase served Jesuit schools for Greek instruction and is herepaired with the Latin translation of Jean Bordatus. Twice widowed, ElisabethAngermaier was an important Ingolstadt printer. Her press operated for onlythree years, and all her books are rare.
 
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