Details

Subject(s)

• Latin language—Dictionaries—Early works to 1500 [Browse]
• Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500 [Browse]

Printer

• Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468 [Browse]

Former owner

• Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816 [Browse]

Binder

• Payne, Roger, 1739-1797 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Lathrop C. Harper, Inc [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

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.

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.

OCLC

36180827

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