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NONNUS PANOPOLITANUS. Graeca paraphrasis Sancti Evangelii Secundum Ioannem. Operâ Fr. Nansii. Cum interpret. Lat. Leyden, Ex Off. Plantiniana, Fr. Raphelengius, 1589. 2 parts in 1 vol. (32), 295; (32), 255 pp. Cont. Oxford bind. of brown cf. w. raised bands w. lower paste down from a manuscript of canon law in a 15th c. English hand. (Top of spine chipped, ties fail).
First edition published in the Low Countries of this paraphrase of the Gospel of St. John in metrical verse. The original Greek text with parallel Latin translation by Joannes Bordatus and Erhardus Hedeneccius. With the notes in the second part by the Dutch scholar Franciscus Nansius (1520-95), "the second Scaliger". - Typographa Batava, 3776; Adams, B-1903; Ebert, 14865; Hoffmann II, 645. Provenance: Alexander Roberts, with motto in Greek (inscribed on title-page); John May 1667(inscribed on end-paper); John Lewis, rector of Sandringham, 1706. - From the library of the Earls of Macclesfield.€ 450
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