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ANTONIUS DE BITONTO. Sermones dominicales per totum annum. [4], 140 leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 184x125 mm, later limp vellum; marginal dampstaining throughout, minor soiling and spotting on title, single tiny wormhole through opening leaves not impairing legibility, wormtrail through bottom edge of approximate 25 leaves in middle of volume, bookplate removed. Stamp of Oscar E. Carbone on front free endpaper (lot 2 in his sale at Parke-Bernet, 12 March 1968). (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 18 August 1492)
first edition of a collection of Sunday sermons by a Franciscan (d. 1459) who taught theology at Ferrara, Bologna, and Mantua. Hain 3217; GW 2210; BMC V, 440; Goff A890; ISTC ia00890000.
