[Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georgius Reyser?), not after 1474]. Folio.
Printed in type 4 of the group of anonymous editions ascribed by Ohly to Georg Reyser. The date 9 May 1474 in the Munich copy is the rubricator's date of finishing his work, rather than a note of ownership. BMC attributes to [Speier: Georgius de Spira].
Verona: [Printer of Augurellus (Christophorus de Montagu)], 5 July 1491. 4°.
On the identity of the printer see D. E. Rhodes, ‘Due nuovi incunaboli: uno senese, uno veronese', Bibliofilia, 88 (1986), 185-8, at 187-8.
[Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon or Johann Gutenberg(?)], ‘1460' or [not before 1469] or [between 1460 and c.1472]. Folio.
Three issues can be distinguished despite identical typesetting: (a) printed on parchment or bull's head paper; (b) on Galliziani paper; (c) on tower and crown paper; see Gottfried Zedler, Das Mainzer Catholicon, Veröffentlichungen der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 4 (Mainz, 1905). This has given rise to the theory that issue (a) was printed in 1460, issue (b) in 1469, and issue (c) c.1472; see Paul Needham, ‘Johann Gutenberg and the Catholicon Press', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 76 (1982), 395-456 and the following articles in ‘Zur Catholicon-Forschung', Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, 13 (1988), 105-232: James C. Thomas, ‘Die Umdatierung eines Wolfenbütteler Frühdruckes des Ackermann aus Böhmen (GW 193) aufgrund beta- und elektronenradiographischer Untersuchungen seiner Papierwasserzeichen', 106-24; Gerhardt Powitz, ‘Das Catholicon in buch- und textgeschichtlicher Sicht', 125-37; Martin Boghardt, ‘Die bibliographische Erforschung der ersten Catholicon-Ausgabe(n)', 138-76; Claus W. Gerhardt, ‘Der Doppelzeilendruck des Catholicon-Druckers von 1460', 177-86; Rolf Stümpel, ‘Überlegungen zum zweizeiligen Satz des Catholicon’, 187-98; Paul Needham, ‘The Catholicon Press of Johann Gutenberg: A Hidden Chapter in the Invention of Printing', 199-230; Lotte Hellinga, ‘The Catholicon: Hypotheses or Solutions', 231-2. For an alternative theory that all three states were printed c.1469, but in three different print shops, the lines composed of movable type having been tied together two and two, see Lotte Hellinga, ‘Analytical Bibliography and the Study of Early Printed Books with a case-study of the Mainz Catholicon', Gb Jb 64 (1989), 47-96; Lotte Hellinga, ‘Slipped Lines and Fallen Type in the Mainz Catholicon', Gb Jb 67 (1992), 35-40; and the response by Paul Needham, ‘Slipped Lines in the Mainz Catholicon: A Second Opinion', Gb Jb 68 (1993), 25-9. See also Anke Böhm, ‘Das Psalterium Moguntinum. Kann man aufgrund von Satzvarianten verschiedene Auflagen erschließen?', Gb Jb 64 (1989), 30-8; Lotte Hellinga, ‘Comments on Paul Needham's Notes', Gb Jb 65 (1990), 65-9; Paul Needham, ‘Corrective Notes on the Date of the Catholicon Press', Gb Jb 65 (1990), 46-64; Paul Needham, ‘Further Corrective Notes on the Date of the Catholicon Press', Gb Jb 66 (1991), 101-26; Lotte Hellinga, ‘Das Mainzer »Catholicon« und Gutenbergs Nachlaß. Neudatierung und Auswirkungen', AGB, 40 (1993), 395-416; see also the summary of the debate in CIBN B‑13.
