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 …

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 …

The Gutenberg Bible is the first great book printed in Western Europe from movable metal type. It marks a turning point in the art of bookmaking and in the shift to the modern world.

Feb 23, 2015 · It's one of the rarest and most influential books in world history. But was it the first? 1. It wasn’t the world’s first printed book. While the Gutenberg Bible helped introduce printing …

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.

Jun 24, 2024 · A Gutenberg Bible is not your ordinary book. The first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type by the mid-1450s gradually led to a massive multiplication of biblical …

See the 500-year-old book that shaped history. In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150 large-format copies of the …

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 …

Western civilization’s first large-scale typographic book gave readers throughout Europe the unprecedented opportunity to consult virtually identical copies of a major text, the Vulgate Bible.

Jul 14, 2025 · A monument in the history of typography, the Gutenberg Bible was the first large-format typographic book printed in Europe. Crafted in Mainz, Germany in 1454/1455 by …