Mainz : [Printer of the 'Catholicon'], '1460' [not before 1469]. – f°. – ISTC ib00020000
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 states were printed concurrently not before 1469, see L. Hellinga, 'The Mainz Catholicon 1460-1470: An experiment in book production' in her Incunabula in Transit (2018), pp. 126-203.
Reference works
Goff B20. – HC 2254*. – GfT 1638. – DeR(M) 90. – M.B. Stillwell, Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460 (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1936 accompanying the distribution of leaves from an incomplete paper copy) . – Pell 1702. – CIBN B-13. – SI 506. – Zehnacker 340. – Castan(Besançon) . – Delisle 209. – Maignien(Grenoble) 87. – Polain(B) 456 (4 ff., vell. only). – IGI 1154. – IBP 730. – IDL 610. – IBE 684. – IJL2 57. – Sallander 1597, 1597 bis. – Coll(S) 137. – Madsen 487. – Martín Abad B-4. – Nentwig 67. – Voull(B) 1558. – Voull(Trier) 919. – Deckert 84. – Hubay(Augsburg) 254. – Ohly-Sack 352. – Sack(Freiburg) 425. – Schäfer 31. – Borm 310. – Kind(Göttingen) 1542, 1543. – Walsh 28. – Oates 47. – Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 245. – Bod-inc B-010. – Sheppard 90. – Pr 146. – BMC I 39. – BSB-Ink B-8. – GW 3182. – Fac: Farnborough, 1971
Related resources
Electronic facsimile : München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (a)
Electronic facsimile : Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Electronic facsimile : Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (fragment, fol. 253 + 256)
Electronic facsimile : Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek (b)
Electronic facsimile : Frankfurt a. M., Universitätsbibliothek
Electronic facsimile : Boston, Public Library
Electronic facsimile : Moscow, Russian State Library (b)
Electronic facsimile : Grenoble, Bibliothèque municipale (b)
Electronic facsimile : Krakow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska (c)
Electronic facsimile : Berlin, Staatsbibliothek (b)
Electronic facsimile : Basel, Universitätsbibliothek (b)
Electronic facsimile : Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek (c)
Electronic facsimile : Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek (a, vellum)
Electronic facsimile : Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional (a, vellum)
Electronic facsimile : Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia (b)
Electronic facsimile : Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek (a)
Electronic facsimile : Paris, Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève
Electronic facsimile : Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (a)
Microfiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 1992. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 1 - Printing in Mainz to 1480, MA 63
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