Op[us] quadragesimale p[er]utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est.

Accession number: 
PML 16166
Author: 
Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495.
Published: 
[Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, 20 July 1472.
Description: 
[290] leaves ; 29 x 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/3r): Sacre theologie magistri necnon sacri eloquii preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio oridinis Mino[rum] professoris op[us] quadragesimale p[er]utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf [27]/9r): Vendelinus ego gentis [co]gnomine spiere: / Roberti haec caste purgata volumi[n]a pressi: / Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto / Magnanimo [et] venetum Nicolae p[ri]ncipe Truno. M.cccclxxii .xx. quintilis.
Printed in type 2:99G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8¹² 9-11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-27¹⁰; 28-30⁶ 31⁴]: 290 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [27]/10, and [31]/4 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
The sequence of watermarks shows that this book was set up on four presses.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 19.6 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century paper over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endband; yellow edges.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Quadragesimale de poenitentia

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout and foliation with foliation added to tabula. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures, mainly trimmed. Later manuscript index on 3 leaves at end.

Provenance: 
Unidentified ownership stamp: SF in a circle (diam. 28 mm) (leaf [20]/4r); Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson, 11 May 1903 (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1909.
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