The Gutenberg Bible: Landmark in Learning (1999)

by James Thorpe

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The Gutenberg Bible, which appeared about 1455, represents the invention of printing in the Western world. The Huntington Library holds one of three vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the United States. Color reproductions of several pages and initial letters from the Bible accompany this text, which details the early history of printing and the way the Gutenberg Bible was produced. The author also discusses Henry Huntington's purchase of the Bible in 1911 for the then-unimaginable sum of $50,000.… (more)

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1999

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Gutenberg, Johannes, 1394/99-ca. 1468

Johann Fust

Henry E. Huntington

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Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Grand-Est, France

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invention of printing

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THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF JOHANN GUTENBERG
This engraving, presumably an imaginary likeness, shows a man with a forked beard and a furred cap, with a die of twelve letters of the alphabet in his left hand. It first appeared in a book by André Thevet, Paris, 1584.

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Introduction -- Rarely has fame ever been so well paced as that which surrounds the Gutenberg Bible.

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The Emergence of Printing and the Gutenberg Bible
How did the invention of printing come to pass and how was the Gutenberg Bible produced?

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The Gutenberg Bible Today
The survival rate of copies of the Gutenberg Bible has been high.

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The Gutenberg Bible, which appeared about 1455, represents the invention of printing in the Western world. The Huntington Library holds one of three vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the United States. Color reproductions of several pages and initial letters from the Bible accompany this text, which details the early history of printing and the way the Gutenberg Bible was produced. The author also discusses Henry Huntington's purchase of the Bible in 1911 for the then-unimaginable sum of $50,000.

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