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The Adventures of Number 45 | History Today

On 6 October 1982, a 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible spends a night in the evidence locker of the University of California.

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey

In the world of rare-book collecting, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible is the ultimate prize. There are fewer than 50 in existence, ...

Gutenberg Anniversaries - not all that they seem? - Blogs

The date of 24 August is often claimed as the anniversary of the Gutenberg Bible, the first European book printed with moveable type.

The Gutenberg Bible, 550 Years after Gutenberg | Bible Interp

As of the 550th anniversary of Gutenberg's death (2018), forty-eight reasonably intact 42-Line Bibles, or volumes of this Bible, remain bound between their ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey - NPR

The Lost Gutenberg pulls readers into a five-century saga, plunging them into the minds of those who desired the Bible and the prestige that ...

Early Books and Manuscripts | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript ...

At almost 600 years old, its typeface and illustrations are still vibrant, and the pages remain flexible, in no small part, because of the consistent care the ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey - WEAA

One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the ...

Widener Gutenberg Bible Near Best | News - The Harvard Crimson

Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed ...

Gutenberg Bibles' Paths Offer New Insights | Princeton Alumni Weekly

Although the Gutenberg Bible is a cultural and historical icon today, the Bibles languished in obscurity for hundreds of years after their ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey - KPBS

The Lost Gutenberg pulls readers into a five-century saga, plunging them into the minds of those who desired the Bible and the prestige that ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey | TPR

In the world of rare-book collecting, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible is the ultimate prize. There are fewer than 50 in existence, and none in ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey | KUAC.org

One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the ...

Library : And the Word Became Print - Catholic Culture

Between 1452 and 1455, in his two workshops in Mainz, Germany, using mobile and reusable letters, cast in metal and set in adjustable hand-moulds, Gutenberg ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey | WAMU

In the world of rare-book collecting, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible is the ultimate prize. There are fewer than 50 in existence, and none in ...

Gutenberg´s invention

The Gutenberg Bible is considered one of the most beautiful books in the world, if not the most beautiful. After completion of the printing of the Gutenberg ...

August 25: Happy Birthday, Gutenberg Bible! | Daily Philosophy

In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany, printed the first Bible with his new printing press using moveable type ... 30 years later, 80% of ...

The 500-Year Story of a Gutenberg Bible And Everyone Who Owned It

Listen to this episode from History Unplugged Podcast on Spotify. For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible—of which there are fewer ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey | sodakpb

One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the ...

So, Gutenberg Didn't Actually Invent Printing As We Know It

But it really is Gutenberg, and especially Gutenberg's edition of the Bible, that is important to European history and more generally to Western ...

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey | WVTF

One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the ...