CARACCIOLO (Roberto). [Quadragesimale]. [Venice, Bernardino - Lot 31

CARACCIOLO (Roberto). [Quadragesimale]. [Venice, Bernardino da Nouara, April 19, 1487]. In-4, 14.8 x 21.9 cm, 95ff. (of 114; a-n8, o10), 34 lines in Roman characters on one column, 19th-century binding in brown half calf on ais, trace of binding. Fine Venetian incunabula edition of sermons by the famous Franciscan preacher Roberto Caracciolo (c. 1425-1495), bishop of Aquino from 1475 until his death. Incomplete with 19 leaves (a1, a8, e1, f1-8, g1, g8, h1-4 & 2 leaves among h5-8), of which the first is blank. First lettering painted in gold and in color. Letters in red and blue ink. Old signature and marginal notes in ink on the first leaf. From the Casati library. First leaf soiled and reinforced. Old stains. Numerous stains. Worm holes. Corners of all leaves slightly rounded. Modern flyleaves. Spine missing. Fragment of old manuscript on vellum skin mounted on the back covers.