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Scholars today think that examination of surviving copies ... Although many Gutenberg Bibles have been rebound ... 49 Gutenberg Bibles are known to exist, but of ...
Each Gutenberg Bible has nearly 1,300 pages and weighs around 60 pounds. It’s written in Latin and printed in double columns, with 42 lines per page. Most were printed on paper.
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.
As such, the Bible has had a profound influence, especially in the Western world, [182] [183] where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed in Europe using movable type. [184] It has contributed to the formation of Western law , art , literature , and education.
Modern stamp commemorating the Gutenberg Bible, the first major European work printed by mechanical movable type. Gutenberg's first major print work was the 42-line Bible in Latin, printed probably between 1452 and 1454 in the German city of Mainz.
Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, (born around 1410 in Schlettstadt, today Sélestat; died December 12, 1478, in Strasbourg) was a pioneering German book printer and bookseller active during the period during which incunabula were printed. In 1466, he published the first printed Bible in the German language, the Mentelin Bible .
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press.Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing.
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.