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The copy of the Gutenberg Bible held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West.
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 ...
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 ...
However, it is assumed that Mentelin had already begun to print significantly earlier, probably even already in 1458. His oldest known printed work is a Latin Bible printed with 49 lines per page ("B49"), whose first volume is dated 1460. As Gutenberg's Bible was printed with 42 lines per page, Mentelin's had fewer pages and proved handier.
Thus, to avoid crashing the e-mail system, he made the e-text available for people to download. This was the beginning of Project Gutenberg as the first digital library. Hart began posting text copies of such classics as the Bible and the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. As of 1987 he had typed in a total of 313 books in this fashion.
Capital letters throughout the text have been highlighted in red and yellow. Jerome's first epistle to Paulinus is the letter number 53 of Jerome, addressed to Paulinus of Nola. It has been used as the preface for the Gutenberg Bible. This Bible was published by Johannes Gutenberg and Johann Fust in Mainz, Germany in 1454.
Gutenberg's first and only large-scale printing effort was the now iconic Gutenberg Bible in the 1450s – a Latin translation from the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. Gutenberg's invention made mass production of texts possible for the first time.
Does "42-line" refer to 42 rows of printed text per page? I thought it was that yes. Gutenberg made more Bibles later on, the second one being IIRC a 35-line Bible. Some people / institutions said to have a Gutenberg Bible are not mentioned here because they have actually a 35-line Bible, not an "original" (older) 42-line Bible. E.g.