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23
Oct. 75
Argonaut
10.00

R-Press Type 1 (? Johann Mentelin and/or Adolf Rusch)

Caracciolus (Robertus) de Licio (1425-1495), Bishop of Aquino (not after 1475)
Adolf Rusch: Strasburg, 1470? fol. (undated)
[inserted] Goff C-138 BMC I 63 GW 6064 [end inserted] Sermons per Adventum, etc. (Sermons de adventa)
174 leaves, 35 lines to a page, 181x116mm Type 103
2, 4, & 5 line spaces for capitals H.4490 Latin
Capitals, paragraph marks, initial strokes & underlines, supplied
in red
copies Yale, Huntington, Library of Congress, Rose Book Dis., Wash.DC.

- one of the earliest books printed in Germany & Roman type.
Caracciolo, Roberto, noted Franciscan preacher; born Lecu, Kingdom
of Naples, 1425; died there May 6 1495.

- was for about 50 yrs the most celebrated preacher in Italy,
and was sometimes referred to as a "2nd Paul"
1495 he was made bishop of Aquila, but in 1497 he was
transferred to the Sec & Title of Aquino.
Some of his earliest publications were gathered together in his
Opera varia (Venica 1479) & more complete collections appeared later

BMC - Works 1) Collection of Sermones 2) Confessio
-listed 3) Quadragesimale {de Peccatis
de Poententia #93
Volgana
4) Sermones de Laudibus Sanctorum
5) " " Trinore Divinorum Judiciorum
*6) " per adventum, Etc. [inserted] contains the legend on which Mitton founded his Paradise Lost [end inserted]
7) Specchio Della Fede.

R printer -> 26 books (all without printed date) - that this
Roman type was not approved by the ordinary German
book buyer may be inferred from the R printers subsequent
preference for Semi gothic types.
- 1st roman letter used in Germany

Barely remembered today, Caraccioli was among the 1st living authors to
appear in printer & recognise the power of the press. He wrott 6 collections
of sermons all of which became instant best-sellers.