Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495
Title:
Sacre theologie magistri necno[n] sacri eloquii preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis Minor[um] professoris opus quadragesimale p[er]utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est : Feliciter incipit.
Alternate Title(s):
Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia
Published / Created:
Venice : Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1472.
Physical Description:
[270] leaves ; 30 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0069
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from the incipit on leaf [a3] recto.

Colophon on leaf [D12] verso reads in full: Rubertus celeber finxit non parua minorum Gloria me fratrum Paulo regnante secu[n]do. Quarto sed Sixto uenie[n]s Halbru[n]na alema[n]nus Franciscus formis ueneta me pressit in urbe Mille quadringentis & septuaginta duobus.

The earlier of two editions printed by Franz Renner in 1472, in which the colophon appears on verso of last leaf (page [540]; in the later edition of that year, a page-by-page reprint except for the final signature, the colophon appears on recto of last leaf (page [539]); there are variations in type setting throughout; see Goff, C-167 and C-168, and Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Spaces left blank for initials and paragraph marks.

Signatures: [a-i¹⁰ k⁶ l-t¹⁰ u¹² x-z¹⁰ A-C¹⁰ D¹²].

Text printed in roman type; spaces left for initials, with guide letters and paragraph marks.

Bod-inc, C-071

BSB-Ink, C-127

Oates, 1653

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00167000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C167

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4427

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6062

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 191

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0069: Imperfect: comprises a single leaf (location unidentified). Includes marginal notes in ink, in a contemporary hand. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Contents:
Table of contents, [a1]v-[a2]v; Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia, [a3]r-[D12]v; colophon, [D12]v.
Subject Terms:
Sermons, Latin -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Renner, Franz, active 1471–1483, printer.