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Caracciolus, Robertus.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia. Strassburg: [Martin Schott], 3 September 1485
folio (298 x 207mm.), 206 leaves, double column, 52 lines, Gothic letter, 4- to 7-line initials supplied in red, paragraph marks in red, red initial-strokes, old vellum, contemporary manuscript marginalia, dampstaining to upper margins of some leaves, worming to lower margins of some leaves
Provenance
Manuel Cervantes, bookplate; Ephraim James Page, bookplate; John F. Fleming (1910-1987), his sale, Christie's New York, 18 November 1988, lot 66; Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), artist
Literature
HC 4436; GW 6078; BMC i 93; Goff C181
Catalogue Note
Caracciolus, dubbed the "prince of preachers", was as controversial as he was charismatic.