Balbus, Johannes:
Catholicon
ISTC No.ib00020000
AuthorBalbus, Johannes
TitleCatholicon
ImprintMainz : [Printer of the 'Catholicon'], '1460' [not before 1469]
Imprint[Johann Gutenberg?], 1460
Imprint[between 1460 and about 1472]
Formatf°
NotesThree 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.
Language of itemlat
Reference worksGoff 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
Digital reproductionsElectronic 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)
Related resourcesMicrofiche: 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
Holdings
AT (c, Ink 4.B.3)
BE (imperfect, only 4 leaves)
CA (formerly Pommersfeldn SchönbornB)
DK (2 leaves on vellum, a)
FRParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France (3, 1 a vellum, 1 b with 8 leaves on a, 1 c)
(c)
Paris Chambre des Députés (b)
Paris Musée des lettres et manuscrits (b, Longleat copy, sold Christie's (London) 13 June 2002 lot 9. - coll. privée)
(a)
Aix-en-Provence BMéjanes (c)
(vell, imperfect)
(a)
(b)
(1 leaf)
DE (a, vellum)
(b, imperfect)
(b)
(a, vellum, imperfect)
(c)
(b)
(c, Inc.V-6)
Donaueschingen FürstenbergHB (1 leaf only; sold)
(Ww 54) (c, 1 leaf only, fol. 254)
(a, vellum)
Ermlitz ApelscheB (fragments, copy lost)
(a, imperfect)
(a, 4 leaves only, vell)
(2, a (fragment of f.233 only) and b)
(a)
(2 leaves only, paper and vell)
(c)
(b)
(c)
(b, now Moscow)
(b, GM-Ink.33)
(2: 1) a, vellum; 2) b, single leaf on paper (f. 331) from Stillwell, "Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460")
(3, 1 imperfect (b)
(c, sold, now Hiroshima University)
(a)
(c, imperfect)
(c)
(b, with 1 sheet a)
(c, imperfect)
HUSárospatak Coll ref
ITGenova, Biblioteca Durazzo *BP (b, with rubricator's date 1472)
Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (c)
Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (c)
Parma, Biblioteca Palatina (b)
Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense (Vol. Inc. 1254 b)
JPHino, Meisei University Library (c)
Hiroshima University of Economics (c, formerly Schäfer)
NL (150 C 64 (fragment)
(002 A 002; 039 C 006 [06]-[07]; 129 B 006) (2, 1 a, 1 b, imperfect, and 2 fragments)
NO (1 leaf, in a copy of Stillwell)
PL (c)
(c)
Sandomierz Sem (c)
(c)
Wrocław EDA (c)
RU (b, Leipzig DB/Buch copy)
(2, a, one formerly Lübeck StB)
ESMadrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España (a, vellum)
Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia (b)
SE (fragment)
Stockholm Swedish anonymous institution (2, fragments)
(3, fragments)
CH (b, with buyer's date 1471)
GBCambridge, University Library (c)
Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Devonshire Collections, Library (b)
Norfolk, Holkham Hall Library (a)
Manchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (3383 (a)
Oxford, Bodleian Library (a, quire [h] on b)
Oxford, Queen's College (c)
(C.14.e.1 = IC.303) (On Galliziani paper, imperfect, wanting leaves 112-126, 197 and 236)
(G.11966, 67 = IC.301) (On vellum)
(IC.302) (On Tower & Crown paper)
(IC.303a) (Leaf [M]1 only, on Galliziani paper, in a copy of Stillwell)
USBryn Mawr PA, Bryn Mawr College, Canaday Library (double leaf)
Boston MA, Public Library (vell, - 41 ff., formerly Gotha LB)
Boston MA, Public Library (Single leaf, B printing, Catholicon)
Williamstown MA, Williams College, Chapin Library (b)
New York NY, Columbia University, Butler Library (3 ff.)
Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (b)
San Marino CA, Huntington Library (b) (with date of rubrication 17 Feb. 1473)
Bloomington IN, Indiana University, Lilly Library (b)
Providence RI, Brown University, John Carter Brown Library (c)
Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (a)
Chicago IL, The Newberry Library (a)
New York NY, Public Library, Rare Book Division (2, 1 b, 1 c)
New York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum (b)
Dallas TX, Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library (a, formerly Pembroke, HPK)
Milwaukee WI, University of Wisconsin, Golda Meir Library (1 leaf)
New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library (vell, + 1 f.)
Princeton Univ., Scheide Library (c, with 1 quire b)
VACittà del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Inc.S.241bis; Pal.lat.672)
noofcopies95
Last Edit2024-10-09 18:00:00.00
