Descriptive Information

Title

Catholicon.

Call Number

53.7

Identifier

ark:/88435/9s161b238

Publisher

Mainz : [Printer of the 1460 Catholicon (Johann Gutenberg)], "1460" [3rd impression, ca. 1472-1473].

Language

Latin

Date Created

1460

Extent

373 leaves ; 39.3 x 27.6 cm.

Provenance

WHS copy is Michael Wodhull's copy, acquired 10/21/27 from Harper.

References

HC 2254*; Pell 1702; DeR(M) 90; Polain(B) 456 (describing 4 vellum leaves only); IDL 610; IGI 1154; IBE 684; IBP 730; Ohly-Sack 352; 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.

Stillwell B19.

Goff B-20.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

This catalogue record is derived in large part from a record for a microfilm.

Three issues can be distinguished with 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.

Binding Note

WHS copy is bound by Roger Payne.

Discovery Information

Subject

Latin language—Dictionaries—Early works to 1500

Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500

Dictionaries

Physical Characteristics

File Count

758

Institutional Information

Collection

In Principio: Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/051ffc18-f294-47fc-947c-c863e25d7163/manifest

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