The Morgan Library & Museum is a must-visit destination ... Visitors can also view rare editions of famous literary works, including a Gutenberg Bible, original manuscripts by Jane Austen, and ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
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Harvard has an outstanding Gutenberg Bible among its rare book collection. The Bible here is a part of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in Widener Library. Unlike Widener's personal library ...
In 1905, Morgan’s bibliophilic nephew recommended one of his co-workers in the library at Princeton: Belle da Costa Greene. Summoned to an audience with the financier, she impressed Morgan and ...
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 ...
During J.P. Morgan’s time, the financier commissioned a garden to fill the space between his home and library building, but those plans were never realized. Longstaffe-Gowan was tasked with ...
They included old letters written by his parents before World War II, a psychological assessment of my father’s mental health ...
. 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 ...
In 1588, the first translation of the entire Bible into Welsh, by Bishop William Morgan, was published. He was vicar of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant at the time, but was born and brought up in Tŷ Mawr ...
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 ...