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 ...

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 probably finished his first ... In the end, the first official English-language Bible was worth waiting for. The influence (and beauty) of the King James Bible, issued in 1611 ...

They included old letters written by his parents before World War II, a psychological assessment of my father’s mental health ...

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English theologian John Wycliffe championed ... 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 ...

In 1439, a goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg was working on an ill-begotten project to create polished metal mirrors ...

. 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 ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is currently exhibiting works owned by the RexAmerican Resources ...

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