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 ...

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 ...

1 of 20 Text detail from a Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455 Van Kampen Collection, on display at the Holy Land Experience, Orlando, Florida When I visit the Museum of the Bible a day before its ...

Printed in 1462 — just 12 years after the original 42-line Gutenberg Bible which is on display in Mainz, Germany — the one in Coimbra is the only surviving copy of an edition of four 48-line ...

The book was printed about 1455 by Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type. For insurance purposes, the Bible is valued at $1 million but it is almost irreplaceable. The bindings of the ...

Johann Gutenberg probably finished his first printing in 1455, in Mainz, Germany. Almost 600 years later, just 49 copies of the Gutenberg Bible are still in existence, and less than half of those ...

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Gutenberg designed a methodical and reliable printing press that allowed for the mass production of written material. The first mass-produced book was of course The Gutenberg Bible, printed in ...

. 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 ...

An assortment of physical media sits organized on shelves inside inside the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility at IU ...