What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it relevant 500 years after its printing?
Voice of America
FILE - A detail of the Old Testament from the Gutenberg Bible on display at the personal library of Pierpont Morgan, the Morgan Library and Museum, in New York, May 19, 2008. Three times per year, a library curator turns the page. FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are shown in New York in 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 extra copies, a total of 180. Around 48 complete "Gutenberg Bibles" are preserved. FILE - A 1455 Biblia Latina by Johannes Gutenberg and Johann Fust, foreground left, is on display inside the personal library of Pierpont Morgan, at the Morgan Library and Museum, in New York, April 25, 2006. Three times per year, a library curator turns the page.
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