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    The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced...
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    the Gutenberg Bible, was the first printed version of the Bible and has been acclaimed for its high aesthetic and technical quality. Gutenberg is often...
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    acquisitions in the following years, among them a second Gutenberg Bible, the Shuckburgh Bible in two volumes (1978), and two block books printed using...
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    he used both paper and vellum (high-quality parchment). In the Gutenberg Bible, Gutenberg made a trial of colour printing for a few of the page headings...
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    possible that Johannes Gutenberg was the printer. The original Gutenberg Bible is the first moveable-type-printed edition of the Bible, circa 1450–1455, with...
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    on their canonicity." "Gutenberg Bible: View the British Library's Digital Versions Online". "1945 Edition of the Luther Bible on-line". Preface to the...
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    Vulgate (redirect from Latin Vulgate Bible)
    The Gutenberg Bible is a notable printed edition of the Vulgate by Johann Gutenberg in 1455. The Sixtine Vulgate (1590) is the first official Bible of...
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    by Mr. Widener", to which was later added one of the few perfect Gutenberg Bibles‍—‌the object of a 1969 burglary attempt conjectured by Harvard's police...
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    had a profound influence, especially in the Western world, where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed in Europe using movable type. It has contributed...
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    the sheet respectively. Famous folios (in both senses) include the Gutenberg Bible, printed in about 1455, and the First Folio collected edition of Shakespeare's...
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    complemented by works of art from the Royal Castle of Warsaw and a Gutenberg Bible from the library of the Catholic Higher Seminary of Pelplin. After...
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    manuscript Bibles written before the invention of printing in the West, and for its possible connections with the Gutenberg Bible. The Bible's colophon...
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    preface for the Gutenberg Bible. This Bible was published by Johannes Gutenberg and Johann Fust in Mainz, Germany in 1454. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition...
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    Sibyllenbuch, believed to have been printed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1452–53, before the Gutenberg Bible, surviving only as a fragment. Quarto is also used...
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  • of Milan Cathedral. 1455 23 February – Johannes Gutenberg completes printing of the Gutenberg Bible in Mainz, the first major book printed with movable...
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  • (1907–1994) was a noted librarian, a rare book curator, and expert on the Gutenberg Bible. He was born in New York City and received his bachelor's degree from...
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    and displays among other things, one of the 48 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Two basement floors extend under much of Hewitt Quadrangle. The first...
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  • himself in being "the only bookseller in history...to have owned a Gutenberg Bible and the Psalters of 1457 and 1459 simultaneously," stressing that "'own'...
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    The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. As of September 2023[update] all of the Bible...
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    major book printed with movable type in the West; the first was the Gutenberg Bible. It is a psalter commissioned by the Mainz archbishop in 1457. The...
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  • B42 may refer to: The Gutenberg Bible or the "42-line Bible" Bundesstraße 42, a German road B42 (New York City bus) in Brooklyn HLA-B42, an HLA-B serotype...
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    achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book...
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  • Around 1440–1450 Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press with movable type, with which he produced the Gutenberg Bible. His invention quickly spread...
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    Library of Congress (category Articles with Project Gutenberg links)
    collection included one of three remaining perfect vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Putnam established the Legislative Reference Service (LRS) in 1914...
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    England is larger, about the size of a modern hardcover novel. The Gutenberg Bible was printed as a folio in about 1455, in which four pages of text were...
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    Gettysburg Address were stored in its vault for protection, as was a Gutenberg Bible and an exemplified copy of Magna Carta. After the war, the depository...
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    unparalleled in value. Lenox's collection included rare items such as the Gutenberg Bible. His library, valued at nearly a million dollars, stood on what is...
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    1976 to 1980. In 1978, the center acquired its complete copy of the Gutenberg Bible. In 1980, the center hired Decherd Turner as director. Turner acquired...
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  • cultural works Gutenberg, a 1993 children's book by author and illustrator Leonard Everett Fisher Gutenberg Bible, printed by Johannes Gutenberg circa 1455...
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    invention of the printing press in the 15th century, made famous by the Gutenberg Bible, each text was a unique handcrafted valuable article, personalized...
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