Chancery 4to (212 x 156 mm). 337 leaves (of 338, lacking a1 title), 51 lines. Text in two columns in Gothic type, capital spaces with printed guide letters. (Some minor staining and spotting.) Later quarter calf over original oak boards preserved with later paper re-covering (upper hinge broken with a few leaves becoming disbound). Provenance: Manuscript index in an early hand on rear flyleaf; Bernardinus Sasellus a Ponte (ex dono inscription 1 May 1538); Joannes Sucking (early signature on first text leaf); title written on flyleaf in early hand; Michele Cavaleri (1813-1890), Milanese lawyer ("Museo Cavaleri" stamp on first text leaf, collection sold en bloc in 1873 to); Enrico Cernuschi (1821-1896, French banker and collector (dispersed after death).

An early collected edition of Caracciolus's sermons.  Michele Cavaleri, collector of books, antiquities and art, negotiated to establish a museum for his collection, but the city council of Milan declined. Ernest Cernushi bought the collection en bloc in 1873; after his death, a portion of the collection was installed at the Musée Cernuschi in Paris, but much of it was sold. Goff C134; HC 4464* = H 4483; C 1445; Pell 3274; Walsh 1969; Bod-inc C-062; Pr 4514; BMC V 341; BSB-Ink C-106; GW 6042; ISTC ic00134000.