The Gutenberg Bible is composed of 1,282 pages. Each page measures 17 x 12 inches. The type is set in two columns, forty-two lines each, from which it has become known as the "forty-two-line Bible," or "B42." In this section, explore the structure of this Bible's pages by looking for the following: Running titles (line of text at the top of a page indicating the title of a book.
Gutenberg Bible in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Greek New Testament by St Jerome. The text contains emendations from the Parisian Bible tradition, and further divergences. [6].
Gutenberg Bible, the first complete book extant in the West and one of the earliest printed from movable type. It is named after its printer, Johannes Gutenberg, who completed it about 1455 working at Mainz, Germany. The number of copies originally printed is unknown; about 40 still exist.
Made in Mainz from 23 February 1453 in Johannes Gutenberg printing shop and finished printing on 24 August 1456, the Gutenberg bible consists of two folio volumes of 322 and 319 sheets (for a total of 641 sheets, i.e. 1282 pages). A page from the Gutenberg Bible held by the Harvard Library History The Gutenberg Bible is the first major work printed in Europe with movable metal type.
The text is St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate version, prepared by biblical scholars of Paris in the 13th century in an effort to produce a consistent and useful Latin text. Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized book printing when he introduced the use of movable type to Europe and invented the printing press.
This edition of the Bible in Latin, also known as the 42-Line Bible, was not Gutenberg's first work, but it was his major achievement. The Gutenberg Bible marked the start of the age of the printed word. The Morgan Library & Museum is the only institution in the world to possess three copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book printed from movable type in the West.
The Yale copy of the Gutenberg Bible was a gift by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness to the University in 1926, in memory of her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Stephen V. Harkness. The copy was acquired by the Philadelphia bookseller and collector A.S.W.
Rosenbach at a February 15, 1926 auction at Anderson Galleries in New York City. The copy had been in the collections of the Benedictine monastery of Melk, in. Exactly what happened between his grand idea and the emergence of the first full Gutenberg Bible-like, for example, whether Gutenberg himself actually printed it.
Shuckburgh copy of the Gutenberg bibleGutenberg-Bibel II/15v: The Song of Songs - Cantica Canticorum (1,1-2,14) This page in the Gutenberg Bible contains the most charming and perhaps best-known Song of Solomon. The gentle, moving and extremely erotic words uttered by young lovers in courtship, so often quoted, are absolutely unparalleled: I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.