The Gutenberg Bible has long been a magic term among book collectors. As the "first printed book worthy of the name", copies of it have been valued at above $350,000. Harvard has an outstanding ...

It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor ...

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Almost 600 years later, just 49 copies of the Gutenberg Bible are still in existence, and less than half of those are complete copies. One is under lock and key at the Library of Congress in ...

The first complete book Gutenberg printed was the Bible, which he ran off his Mainz, Germany press around 1456. Historians believe Gutenberg printed about 200 copies of the two-volume Bible in the ...

A daring burglar came within inches of successfully stealing Harvard's Gutenberg Bible from its resting place in Widener Library on August 19. He succeeded in foiling the library's alarm system ...

. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

The entire Bible has been translated into over 670 languages; the New Testament alone can be read in more than 1,500 additional languages. 1 of 20 Text detail from a Gutenberg Bible printed in ...

of what is now known as the Gutenberg Bible.Credit: Alamy In the aftermath of my mother’s death a few years ago, during the onset of the pandemic, I started sorting through old documents and ...

Thirteen indicators were used to calculate Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz's overall Best Global Universities rank. Here is a breakdown of how this institution ranked relative to other ...