Karel Kolčava (1656-1717)

EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES IN USUM PRAECIPUE SCHOLASTICAE JUVENTUTIS...

Prague, 1722
...conscriptae a CAROLO KOLCZAWA Societatis JESU. Format 16°, 15x9.5 cm. 684 numbered pp., in Latin. Title page printed in black, bearing the Jesuit monogram IHS within a wreath. Initials, headpieces, and other printer`s ornaments. Sturdy full-leather binding, spine with 4 raised bands. Printed by the Jesuit press at the Klementinum in Prague in 1722. On the front pastedown, manuscript "Ex libris Antonii Galli Schöttner (...) Poëta A(nn)o 1752". Condition corresponding to the age. A Latin textbook, the work of the Jesuit teacher and writer Karel Kolčava (Carolus Kolczawa). It is a collection of model letters (epistles). It served chiefly as teaching material in Jesuit schools for mastering the Latin epistolary style. Binding damaged, traces of woodworm, text block in good condition.