9. CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod de poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472. _Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Hec est tabula omniu_m_ sermonu_m_ contentorum hoc in uolumine. _Fol. 3^a_: Sacre theologie magistri necnon sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis Minor_um_ professoris op_us_ quadragesimale p_er_utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. _Fol. 267^a_, COLOPHON: Vendelinus ego gentis _co_gnomine spiere! Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi_n_a pressi! Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto Magnanimo _et_ uenetum Nicolao pr_in_cipe Truno M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis. _Fol. 267^b, 268, blank._ _Fol. 269^a_: Sermo i_n_ festo a_n_nu_n_tiat_i_o_n_is u_ir_ginis marie _et_ eiusdem Roberti cum tribus (_sic_) aliis sermonib_us_ seque_n_tib_us_. s. de p_re_destinato nume_ro_ damnator_um_ _et_ de cathenis. _Fol. 289^b_: Finis triu_m_ sermonu_m_ Fratris Roberti... _Fol. 290, blank._ Quarto. Quires [1-7^{10}, 8^{12}, 9-11^{10}, 12^8, 13-15^{10}, 16^8, 17-27^{10}, 28-30^6, 31^4], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40 lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424. Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524. Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin. Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present. The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in 1801, for £1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10-1/8 × 7-1/2 in. 10. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.