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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.
Versions and editions of the Bible which first appeared in print before 1650. Books containing substantial parts of the Bible, such as the Gospels, are included. For pre-printing manuscript Bibles see Category:Biblical manuscripts, and its sub-category Category:Illuminated biblical manuscripts.
New digital editions, with manuscript images, of much of Old English biblical verse, including Junius 11 poems and metrical psalms and psalm excerpts, are available in the Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project, eds. Martin Foys, et al.(Madison, WI: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, 2019-), with translations from the Old ...
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.
English: Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611, shows the Twelve Apostles at the top. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals.
The Biblia pauperum (Latin for "Paupers' Bible") was a tradition of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. Unlike a simple "illustrated Bible", where the pictures are subordinated to the text, these ...
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The Winchester Bible is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript produced in Winchester between 1150 and 1175. With folios measuring 583 x 396 mm., it is the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible. [1] The Bible belongs to a group of large-sized Bibles that were made for religious houses all over England and the continent during the 12th ...