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Episode Synopsis
RBS faculty member Paul Needham (Princeton Univ.) gave a public lecture on "The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads" on 29 July 2025. You can watch the full recording of the lecture on YouTube at https://youtu.be/o4aMEB38slw?feature=shared.
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The ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ, whose colophon states that it was printed in Mainz, 1460, has been the subject of controversy for more than fifty years. Paul Needham argues that it was printed from thin two-line stereotypes, used for three typographically identical impressions, dating to 1460, 1469, and 1472-73. Others maintain that it was printed directly from movable types, like all other incunables; that the colophon date is wrong; and that all copies were printed in 1469. Needham, working with Eric White, has recently discovered new evidence which strongly supports the stereotype hypothesis.
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Paul Needham became Scheide Librarian at Princeton University in 1998 and retired in 2020. Before coming to Princeton, he worked at Sothebyโs and at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Among his books is ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ: 400โ1600 (1979). He has given Rare Book School courses on early printed books both at the Morgan and at the Huntington.
๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฎ๐น๐ธ:
The ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ, whose colophon states that it was printed in Mainz, 1460, has been the subject of controversy for more than fifty years. Paul Needham argues that it was printed from thin two-line stereotypes, used for three typographically identical impressions, dating to 1460, 1469, and 1472-73. Others maintain that it was printed directly from movable types, like all other incunables; that the colophon date is wrong; and that all copies were printed in 1469. Needham, working with Eric White, has recently discovered new evidence which strongly supports the stereotype hypothesis.
๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ:
Paul Needham became Scheide Librarian at Princeton University in 1998 and retired in 2020. Before coming to Princeton, he worked at Sothebyโs and at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Among his books is ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ: 400โ1600 (1979). He has given Rare Book School courses on early printed books both at the Morgan and at the Huntington.
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