Caracciolus, Sermones quadragesimales de peccatis, Venice, 1488, later calf, manuscript endleaves

Robertus Caracciolus

Two works of sermons in one volume, 1488-1490, comprising:

Sermones quadragesimales de peccatis. Sermo de S. Bonaventura. Sermo de S. Bernardino. Sermo I de annuntiatione B.V.M. Sermo de laudibus sanctorum. Epistola ad Johannem de Aragonia. Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 27 September 1488, 192 leaves, a-z [et]⁸, double column, 49 lines plus headline, gothic type, first heading printed in red

Sermones de laudibus sanctorum [corrected by Gasparino Borro]. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 1 October 1490, 220 leaves, [4] a-z [et] [con] [rum] A⁸, double column, 48 lines, gothic type

2 works in one volume, 4to (213 x 154mm.), later calf over thick wooden boards, spine tooled in period style, vellum endleaves, two medieval manuscript leaves (remaining from original binding, one bound at front and one at rear), some deckle edges

The colophon states that the text has been "examinatus" by Gasparino Borro, a Servite friar and preacher from Venice.

The two medieval manuscript leaves in the binding are from a twelth-century Italian Psalter.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ic00160000 & ic00150000

PROVENANCE:

Convent of San Francesco, Montepulciano, inscription at head of first leaf; Biblioteca Bardi-Serzelli, armorial bookplate