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Gutenberg Bibles.(Current and coming)(Johann Gutenberg)
This summer the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City offers visitors a rare opportunity to examine all three of its Gutenberg Bibles side by side. The books were printed by Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johannes Fust in Mainz, Germany, about 1455 using the system Gutenberg developed of casting metal types and composing them letter by letter, probably in a bed of sand, to produce pages ready for the press, which was likely modeled on wine- or papermaker's presses. A complete copy contains the Latin Vulgate text of the Bible in 1,282 pages, usually bound in two volumes. Bibliographers believe that Gutenberg and his successors printed between 120 and 135 copies of the Bible on paper and between 40 and 45 on vellum, of which some 50 copies in various states of condition survive.
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There are several obvious differences in the three versions in the Morgan Library--two of the Bibles are printed on paper and one is on vellum, one is a complete copy (one of only five in the United States) and the other two are not; but more subtle variations in composition, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Gutenberg Bibles.(Current and coming)(Johann Gutenberg)