Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
9. CARACCIOLUS, Robertus, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod de poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.
Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2a: Hec est tabula omnium sermonum contentorum hoc in uolumine. Fol. 3a: Sacre theologie magistri necnon sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis Minorum professoris opus quadragesimale perutilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. Fol. 267a, Colophon:
Vendelinus ego gentis cognomine spiere!
Roberti haec caste purgata uolumina pressi!
Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto
Magnanimo et uenetum Nicolao principe Truno
M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.
Fol. 267b, 268, blank. Fol. 269a: Sermo in festo annuntiationis uirginis marie et eiusdem Roberti cum tribus (sic) aliis sermonibus sequentibus. s. de predestinato numero damnatorum et de cathenis. Fol. 289b: Finis trium sermonum Fratris Roberti... Fol. 290, blank.
Quarto. Quires [1-710, 812, 9-1110, 128, 13-1510, 168, 17-2710, 28-306, 314], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40 lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424. Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.
Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.
Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.
The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in 1801, for £1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.
10. VALLA, Laurentius. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.