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CARACCIOLUS, Robertus (1425-1495). Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia, Sermo II in festo annuntiationis B.V.M., Sermo de praedestinatio numero damnatorum, Sermo de catenis, and six other sermons. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1476.
Median 4° (215 x 158mm). Collation: a-m10 n12 o-p10 q8 r-y10 aa-cc10 dd-ff8 gg6 hh-ii8 (a1 blank, a2r tabula, a3r Sermones quadragesimales, ee1r Sermo in festo annuntiationis, ee8v Sermo de praedestinatio, ff5r Sermo de catenis, gg5r colophon, gg5v-gg6 blank, hh1r Sermo de spe bona, Sermo de miseria conditionis humane, and others, ii7r register, ii8 blank). 295 (of 296, without first blank) leaves. 40 lines, double column. 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters, opening initial on a3r (slightly rubbed) and hh1r in liquid gold on red ground. Type: 9:76G.. 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance: early foliation, partly collated in table; unlocated College of St. Barnabas (17th-century inscription); Manuel Cervantes (bookplate); Clive Leslie George (booklabel).
FIRST EDITION of the final six sermons: De spe bona, De miseria conditionis humanae, De elemosyna, De honore sacerdotum, De virginitate, De iudicio pestilentia. HC 4433; GW 6072; BMC V, 227 (IA. 20280); Goff C-176; IGI 2478.
Median 4° (215 x 158mm). Collation: a-m10 n12 o-p10 q8 r-y10 aa-cc10 dd-ff8 gg6 hh-ii8 (a1 blank, a2r tabula, a3r Sermones quadragesimales, ee1r Sermo in festo annuntiationis, ee8v Sermo de praedestinatio, ff5r Sermo de catenis, gg5r colophon, gg5v-gg6 blank, hh1r Sermo de spe bona, Sermo de miseria conditionis humane, and others, ii7r register, ii8 blank). 295 (of 296, without first blank) leaves. 40 lines, double column. 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters, opening initial on a3r (slightly rubbed) and hh1r in liquid gold on red ground. Type: 9:76G.. 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance: early foliation, partly collated in table; unlocated College of St. Barnabas (17th-century inscription); Manuel Cervantes (bookplate); Clive Leslie George (booklabel).
FIRST EDITION of the final six sermons: De spe bona, De miseria conditionis humanae, De elemosyna, De honore sacerdotum, De virginitate, De iudicio pestilentia. HC 4433; GW 6072; BMC V, 227 (IA. 20280); Goff C-176; IGI 2478.