Bod-Inc: C-060
Caracciolus, Robertus
Opera varia.
Analysis of Content
a2r ‘Tabula omnium sermonum contentorum in hoc volumine'.
a3r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia. Incipit: ‘ “[M]ulti sunt vocati, pauci vero electi” [Mt 20,16]. Habentur hec verba Math[ei] .20. c[apitulo] et in euangelio hodierno. Propter nimiam caritatem suam . . .’ 73 sermons. On the works see Serafino Bastanzio, Fra Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce, predicatore del secolo XV (Isola del Liri, 1947) and the review by Bonaventura von Mehr, ‘Über neuere Beiträge zur Geschichte der vortridentinischen franziskanischen Predigt', Collectanea Franciscana, 18 (1948), 245-58, at 254-7. See also Anscar Zawart, The History of Franciscan Preaching and of Franciscan Preachers (1209-1927). A Bio-Bibliographical Study, Franciscan Studies, 7 (New York, 1928), 295-8.
61r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo [II] de annuntiatione BVM. Incipit: ‘ “[N]e timeas Maria, inuenisti enim gratiam apud deum” [Lc 1,30] Luc[ae] .i. Sacratissime solemnitatis hodierne . . .’
67r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de praedestinato numero damnatorum. Incipit: ‘ “[M]ulti sunt vocati, pauci vero electi” [Mt 20,16]. Math[ei] .20. c[apitulo]. Uerba que reuerentijs vestris . . .’
72v Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de catenis peccatorum. Incipit: ‘ “[V]idi angelum descendentem de celo habentem clauem abyssi . . .” [Apc 20,1] Apoc[alipsis] .x.(!). Infirmitates curande'.’ See O. Visani, ‘Roberto da Lecce, Quaresimale Padovano 1455', Il Santo, 23 (1983), 3-312, at 22-3 no. 34.
82r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de spe bona. Incipit: ‘ “[G]ustate et videte, quoniam suauis est Dominus. Beatus vir qui sperat in eo” [Ps 33,9] Ps[almo] 33. Statuerunt multi ceco errore . . .’
85r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de virginitate. Incipit: ‘ “[Q]ueramus domino nostro regi virginem” [III Rg 1,2] 3 Reg[um] p[rim]o. Solet queri a doctoribus . . .’
86v Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de iudicio pestilentiae. Incipit: ‘ “[I]udicia Dei abyssus multa” [Ps 35,7] Psal[mo] 35. Eçech[ielis] 14 c[apitulo] dicit dominus: “Dimisero pestilentiam . . .” [Ez 14,19]. In quibus verbis notabimus triginta peccata . . .’
A1v ‘Tabula predicationum de aduentu Christi . . . cum nonnullis aliis predicationibus in hoc libro contentis'.
A2r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermones de adventu. Incipit: ‘ “[N]ox precessit, dies autem appropinquauit” [Ro 13,12]. Uerba sunt doctoris gentium ad Ro[manos] 13 c[apitulo] et in epistola hodierna. Nihil vnicuique tam conueniens . . .’ 29 sermons.
H5r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de S. Joseph. Incipit: ‘ “[I]oseph fili Dauid, noli timere . . .” [Mt 1,20] Math[ei] p[rimo] c[apitulo]. Dilectissimi in Christo Jhesu, noster doctor . . .’ See Visani 3-312, at 22 no. 30.
H7r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de beatitudine. Incipit: ‘ “[E]xultabunt sancti in gloria . . .” [Ps 149,5] Ps[almo] 149. Non potest aliquis percipere . . .’
I4v Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermones de divina caritate. Incipit: ‘ “[V]enite ad me omnes qui laboratis . . .” [Mt 11,28]. Uerba sunt redemptoris nostri . . .’ 7 sermons.
L5r Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermones de immortalitate animae. Incipit: ‘ “[I]usti autem in perpetuum viuent” [Sap 5,16]. Scribuntur hec verba originaliter Sap[ientiae] 5 c[apitulo]. Q[uonia]m falso plerique opinantur . . .’ 3 sermons.
M7r Bollanus, Dominicus: [Letter to] Nicolaus Marcellus, Doge of Venice. Incipit: ‘Cum ex florentissimo gymnasio Paduano . . .’ Printed as a separate text in GW.
M7r Bollanus, Dominicus: De conceptione BVM. Incipit: ‘[N]on paruo dolore animi afficior . . .’ Printed as a separate text in GW 4617.
aa1v ‘Tabula sermonum de timore iudiciorum Dei'.
aa2r Caracciolus, Robertus: [Letter to] Johannes de Aragonia, son of King Ferdinand of Sicily, Cardinal of S. Hadrianus. Incipit: ‘Inter preclarissimas virtutes tuas . . .’
aa2v Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermones de timore divinorum iudiciorum. Incipit: ‘ “[V]idi alterum angelum volantem . . .” [Apc 14,6-7]. Habentur hec verba Apoc[alipsis] 14 c[apitulo]. Ad tantam insaniam . . .’ 19 sermons.
ii3v Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de patientia. Incipit: ‘ “[P]er patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen” [Hbr 12,1]. Doctoris gentium verba . . .’
ii6v Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermo de morte. Incipit: ‘ “[M]orte morieris” [Gn 2,17] Gen[esis] 2. Existimaui sepenumero nihil tam vtile . . .’ See Visani 3-312, at 30 no. 70.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1479. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–y 1-8 A–O aa–hh8 ii12.
References
ISTC: ic00131000
GW: GW 6039;
Hain: HC *4462;
Goff: Goff C‑131;
BMC: BMC V 195;
Proctor: Pr 4176;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑103; Hillard 567; Oates 1673; Sheppard 3354-5.
LCN: 13889948, 13889953
Copies
Copy number: C-060(1)
Wanting the blank leaf ii12.
Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled.
Size: 236 × 166 × 68 mm.
Size of leaf: 228 × 151 mm.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.
Provenance: Rennes, Franciscans, S. Franciscus; inscriptions on a2r, aa1v, and ii11v. Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); sale (1789), lot 1475, in Douce's copy of the catalogue annotated with ‘Douce 0 3 0'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 140.
Copy number: C-060(2)
Gatherings a–y and 1-5, the Quadragesimale, only.
Binding: Nineteenth-century Italian half green morocco; bound for Boutourlin.
Size: 230 × 170 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 222 × 155 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes in various hands.
On a3r an eight-line initial is supplied in maroon with highlighting in light blue on a gold ground; acanthus leaf infill in light green and blue and extension in maroon, integrating a staff in green, which ends in floral ornaments in gold, green, blue, and maroon in the upper and lower margins. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. See Pächt and Alexander II, 111 no. pr. 88.
Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); book-plate and shelfmark no. 776; see Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1841), lot 288? Purchased for £0. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 11.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.10.
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