Catholicon
Publisher: Printer of the Catholicon
Published: 1460
Place of publication: Mainz]
Language: lat
Notes: Three issues can be distinguished in spite of identical typesetting: a) printed on vellum or Bull's Head paper; b) on Galliziani paper; c) on Tower & Crown paper. This has given rise to the theory that issue a) was printed in 1460, issue b) in 1469 and issue c) about 1472; see P. Needham, in BSA 76 (1982) pp.395-456 and the articles "zur Catholicon-Forschung" in Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte 13 (1988) pp.105-232. For an alternative theory that all three states were printed about 1469, see L. Hellinga in Gb Jb 1989 pp. 47-96.

HC 2254*; Pell 1702; DeR(M) 90; Polain(B) 456 (describing 4 vellum leaves only); IDL 610; IGI 1154; IBE 684; IBP 730; Voull(Trier) 919; Sallander 1597, 1597 bis; Coll(S) 137; Madsen 487; Oates 47; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 245; Sheppard 90; Pr 146; BMC I 39; BSB-Ink B-8; GW 3182. Stillwell, M.B.: Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460 (published by Edmond Byrne Hackett, New York, 1936, to accompany the distribution of leaves from an incomplete paper copy). Fac: Farnborough, 1971