Early editions of the
Facetiae are rare, and they are not yet described in an organized fashion as is common for
incunabula. It was, evidently, very popular: an 1894 bibliography lists twenty editions from the fifteenth century, and states that the oldest is printed by
Georgius Lauer in Rome and is known as
Hain 13179 (a
quarto with 110 leaves). The second oldest is called Reichling 1919 (100 leaves). The 100-leaf edition, despite having been described elsewhere as the first printing, is now generally held to be later than the 110-leaf edition, which is traditionally thought to be the
editio princeps; both were printed in Rome in 1470/1471. An edition from 1473–1476, Hain 13182, was printed somewhere in Poland.
Christophorus Valdarfer in
Venice likewise printed an edition (with 76 leaves) in 1470/1471, and
Andreas Belfortis in Ferrara printed one dated 1471. According to
Lotte Hellinga, the Venice edition by Valdarfer is probably older than Lauer's edition printed in Rome, and most likely served as its exemplar. There are surviving manuscript copies from the fifteenth century. ==Tales==