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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. [5]
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
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 decided to make the most of ...
After the invention of printing in Europe, the Vulgate became the first printed book – the Gutenberg Bible (1452–1456) was created. [20] The first critical edition of the Vulgate text-type was the work of Robert Estienne in 1528. [21] In 1546, the Council of Trent passed a resolution on the need to prepare a revised Vulgate.
Her findings revealed that those leaves were used by Gutenberg’s successors for their own edition, printed in 1462. “For as many times as the Gutenberg Bible have been looked at, it seems like every time a researcher comes in, something new can be discovered,” McQuillen said. “This book has existed for 500 years.
First page of the first volume of the Gutenberg Bible: the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus from the University of Texas copy. The page has 40 lines. For over a thousand years (c. AD 400–1530), the Vulgate was the most commonly used edition of the most influential text in Western European society.
The Bible (left) and Science and Health (right) The first edition was published in 1875 by Eddy, who was then in her mid-fifties and known as Mary Baker Glover. [1] It was printed by W.F. Brown & Co. Their invoice for 1,000 copies, dated October 30, 1875, was made out to George M. Barry and Edward Hitchins for US$2,285.35.
The original Gutenberg Bible is the first moveable-type-printed edition of the Bible, circa 1450–1455, with 42 lines of text on each page in contrast to the Bamberg's 36 lines, and the two Bibles are typically distinguished by this criterion. However, since the 36-line Bible might have been printed by Gutenberg, and was printed at a similar ...