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Gutenberg Bible

hama7 — Wed, 05 May 2004 16:55:29 -0800

The Gutenberg Bible: On this site you will find the British Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s.

By: hama7

hama7 — Wed, 05 May 2004 16:56:06 -0800

Previous single exhibit and inaccessible thread here.

By: bdk3clash

bdk3clash — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:39:52 -0800

Was this before or after he appeared in Police Academy?

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 05 May 2004 18:19:39 -0800

Gute post, hama. Not gute joke, bdk.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Wed, 05 May 2004 18:27:26 -0800

wonderful. thank you!

By: hhc5

hhc5 — Wed, 05 May 2004 19:17:48 -0800

This is a wonderful. For New Yorkers interested in seeing a Gutenberg Bible in person (though you can't flip the pages, either by hand or digitally), head over to the New York Public Library's main branch, where there's one on quiet display outside the 3d floor main reading room. The NYPL gets a kick out of pointing out that the man who brought the bible to the U.S., James Lenox, told U.S. Customs Inspectors that were to remove their hats on seeing it, privileged as they were to lay their eyes on such a thing.

By: theora55

theora55 — Wed, 05 May 2004 19:38:13 -0800

I saw it at the NYPL, and I wish I'd been wearing a hat, so I could have removed it.

By: infidelpants

infidelpants — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:05:08 -0800

Fantastic. Does anyone publish illuminated Bibles anymore? The simple text-only (or worse yet, the trendy Bibles favoured by Protestants trying to be hip) just aren't the same.

By: plep

plep — Thu, 06 May 2004 00:21:29 -0800

[this is good] - don't miss the other treasures of the British Library. Does anyone publish illuminated Bibles anymore? Take a look at the Saint John's Bible site.

By: halonine

halonine — Thu, 06 May 2004 01:11:17 -0800

Taschen just started selling a reproduction of the Luther Bible of 1534. It's in German, though. The Metropolitan Museum sells a Bible illustrated with illuminations from the Urbino Bible. The text is King James, and you can get it through the link (though you have to dig around a little).

By: carter

carter — Thu, 06 May 2004 09:59:22 -0800

Thanks, hama7. I saw an original at the Gutenberg museum in Mainz, it was (words fail me ...).