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 L1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a further cost of 19 shillings.  Leaf 10-1/8 x 7-1/2 in.

10.  VALLA, LAURENTIUS.  Elegantiae linguae Latinae.  Venetiis, Nicolaus
    Jenson, 1471.

Fol. 1^a:  LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega_n_tia_rum_ co_m_pendiosae collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti directae principium. Fol. 9^a, blank. Fol. 9^b:  LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM:  CVI OPUS ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. Fol. 11^a:  LAVRENTII VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE.  ET EX HIS DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. Fol. 159^b:  LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT:  INCIPIT IIII.  DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [For TERTIVS read QVINTUS; for IIII.  DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS read VI.  DE NOTIS SCRIPTORVM.] Fol. 190^a:  LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA:  ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER INCIPIT. Fol. 200^b, COLOPHON:  LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA:  ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM PER ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM EST. M.CCCCLXXI. Fol. 201, 202, blank.