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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 ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in the Middle Ages, is one of the first English literary ... The first complete book Gutenberg printed was the Bible, which he ran off his Mainz ...

Johann Gutenberg ... the Bible into any language other than Latin could get you in more than hot water. John Wycliffe went ahead and did it anyway, translating it into English in the 14th century ...

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 ...

. 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 ...

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 ...

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In the shadowy world where religion meets archaeology, scientists, collectors, and schemers are racing to find the most precious relics. Hand copied around 1400, a Wycliffe New Testament on ...

Johannes Gutenberg, with his financier, Johann Fust, and a printer, Peter Schöffer — collaborated to print 180 copies, in Latin, of what is now known as the Gutenberg Bible.Credit: Alamy In the ...