Ermittlungen zum Erscheinungsvermerk: [Mainz: Drucker des "Catholicon" (H2254), nicht vor 1469 oder Johann Gutenberg?, 1460 oder zwischen 1460 und um 1472]
ISTC: 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 three states were printed about 1469, see L. Hellinga in Gb Jb 1989 pp. 47-96 and in the Book Collector (Spring 1992) pp. 28-54
Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks am Ende: Hic liber egregius. catholicon. d[omi]nice incarnacionis annis M cccc lx Alma in urbe maguntina ... impressus atq[ue] confectus est. ...