Sermones de laudibus sancto[rum] clarissimi fratris Roberti Carazoli de Licio Ordinis Mino[rum] ac pontificis Aquinaten[sis].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495

Contributor:

Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Sermons, Latin.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasp plates (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Franziskanerkloster (Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) (bookplate) (former owner) (inscription)

Franciscans (Bolzano, Italy) (bookplate) (former owner) (inscription)

Penniman, James Hosmer, 1860-1931 (donor)

Penniman, Maria Hosmer (honoree)

Physical Description:

314 unnumbered leaves (leaf [302] blank) ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Sermones de laudibus sanctorum

Fingerprint:

neeu u*i- ruri cine (C) 1489 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Augsburg] : [P]er Erhardum Ratdolt Auguste impressum, Anno a natali christiano .M.cccc.lxxxix. kale[n]dis sextis Nouembris [27 Oct. 1489]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (pi1r).

Incipit of text (leaf a1r): In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ih[es]u [christ]i. Incipit prima pars sermonu[m] de laudib[us] s[an]c[t]o[rum] s[e]c[undu]m fratre[m] Robertu[m] carazolu[m] de Licio ordinis mino[rum]: ep[iscopu]m Aquinaten[sem].

Imprint from colophon on leaf O7v, which reads: Clarissimi ac celeberrimi p[re]conis fratris roberti Carazoli de Licio ordinis minorum: pontificis Aquinaten[sis] opus de laudibus sanctorum accuratissime per Erhardum Ratdolt Auguste impressum. Anno a natali christiano .M.cccc.lxxxix. kale[n]dis sextis Nouembris.

Chancery quarto, printed in double columns. Leaf a1v: 41 lines to a full column; area of text: 152 x 110 mm.; col. width: 52 mm. Woodcut and printed initials; 1 initial space (leaf r3v). Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut illustration (52 x 45 mm.) on leaf e6v of "Iherusalem" with respect to "Oriens" and "Perfida," accompanying a sermon on the Epiphany.

Signatures: pi⁶ a-z⁸ A-O⁸ [P]¹².

Leaf O8 is blank.

Leaves [P]2-[P]6 signed "2", "3", "4", "5" and "6", respectively.

Leaf a1r: line 1 begins: "In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ih[es]u [christ]i."; a variant reads: "In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ihesu [christ]i." Line 3 reads: "s[e]c[undu]m fratre[m] Robertu[m] carazolu[m] de Li"; a variant reads: "[secundu]m fratre[m] Robertu[m] carazolu[m] de Li-". Line 4 begins: "Sermo primus ..."; a variant reads: "Sermo prim[us] ..." Cf. GW.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. marginal marks in brown ink in text; early ms. annotation in brown ink on leaf o8v; early ms. inscription and shelf-mark above and below bookplate on front pastedown, respectively.

Penn Libraries copy has engraved bookplate ("Bibliotheca Conventus Bulsanensis ad S: Franciscum Ord: Min: Ref: Prov: Turol:" surrounding an image of St. Francis receiving the stigmata) of the Franziskanerkloster in Bolzano, Italy, on front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Pro conuentu fratrum minoru[m] franciscano[rum] Bolsanentium.") of the Franziskanerkloster in Bolzano, Italy, at head of leaf pi2r.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 214 x 154 mm.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by James Hosmer Penniman in honor of his mother Maria Hosmer Penniman in 1930; the bookplate of the Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education of the University of Pennsylvania (with ms. call number in red ink) is affixed to front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in Augsburg (Kyriss workshop no. 83; EBDB w002142) in full contemporary blind-tooled leather over square-edged wooden boards; spine rebacked (3 raised bands); remains of paper ms. label ("Robertus de [...]") on left board; 2 metal catchplates on left board; evidence of 2 clasps on right board; ms. title ("Robert[us] [de] Sanctis") on fore-edge; ms. title ("Rob[ertus] [de] s[an]cte[?]") on tail edge; free endpaper and back pastedown replaced with modern paper leaves.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after O8 ("Registrum in sermones de sanctis Roberti de Licio alphabetice ordinatu[m]") wanting. GW notes that these leaves are wanting in many copies.

Penn Libraries copy: front pastedown lightly wormed; a few wormholes in blank leaf O8; fore-edge of leaves pi1-pi6 (including title leaf) and O6-O8 mended; tail outer corner of leaves O5-O6 each cut off and mended with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

Goff C-145

BM 15th cent. II, p. 383 (IA.6692)

GW 6053

BSB-Ink. C-115

ISTC ic00145000

OCLC:

15508753