![CARACCIOLUS, Robertus (1425-1495). Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia. In addition: Sermo II in festo annuntiationis BVM. Sermo de praedestinato numero damnatorum. Sermo de catenis. [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [before 28 July] 1473.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0110_001(caracciolus_robertus_sermones_quadragesimales_de_poenitentia_in_additi052513).jpg?w=1)
![CARACCIOLUS, Robertus (1425-1495). Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia. In addition: Sermo II in festo annuntiationis BVM. Sermo de praedestinato numero damnatorum. Sermo de catenis. [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [before 28 July] 1473.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0110_002(caracciolus_robertus_sermones_quadragesimales_de_poenitentia_in_additi052513).jpg?w=1)
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CARACCIOLUS, Robertus (1425-1495). Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia. In addition: Sermo II in festo annuntiationis BVM. Sermo de praedestinato numero damnatorum. Sermo de catenis. [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [before 28 July] 1473.
A clean, crisp, rubricated copy with wide margins bound at the Würzburg Cathedral library workshop. Carraciolus was a Franciscan, appointed bishop of Aquino by Sixtus V (1474), then of his birthplace Lecce in 1484. In this close reprint of the 1472 first edition by de Spira, quires [a], [e], and the outer sheet of quire [c] are quarto. HCR 4430; GW 6068 (+ Accurti(1936) p.104); BMC V, 163; BSB-Ink C-133; CIBN C-100; Bod-inc C-076; Goff C-172.
Chancery folio and royal quarto (287 x 202mm). With the blank leaves. Fo. A2r with illuminated opening initial, other initials in red or blue, that on E1r in blue with penwork in red, paragraphs marks and underlining in red. (Fo. a2r and G5 slightly soiled). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, a Würzburg binding, with large rosettes, lily and other floral tools [Schwenke-Sammlung Granatapfel 131, Lilie 194], spine with crossed multiple fillets and 19th-century label, metal strips on covers, later clasps (repair on upper cover, center bosses lacking, minor scuff marks, joints cracked, spine worn at extremities).
A clean, crisp, rubricated copy with wide margins bound at the Würzburg Cathedral library workshop. Carraciolus was a Franciscan, appointed bishop of Aquino by Sixtus V (1474), then of his birthplace Lecce in 1484. In this close reprint of the 1472 first edition by de Spira, quires [a], [e], and the outer sheet of quire [c] are quarto. HCR 4430; GW 6068 (+ Accurti(1936) p.104); BMC V, 163; BSB-Ink C-133; CIBN C-100; Bod-inc C-076; Goff C-172.
Chancery folio and royal quarto (287 x 202mm). With the blank leaves. Fo. A2r with illuminated opening initial, other initials in red or blue, that on E1r in blue with penwork in red, paragraphs marks and underlining in red. (Fo. a2r and G5 slightly soiled). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, a Würzburg binding, with large rosettes, lily and other floral tools [Schwenke-Sammlung Granatapfel 131, Lilie 194], spine with crossed multiple fillets and 19th-century label, metal strips on covers, later clasps (repair on upper cover, center bosses lacking, minor scuff marks, joints cracked, spine worn at extremities).
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