#gutenberg bible

[houghtonlib]

Our newest video in the Frequently Asked Questions series tackles "What is the oldest book in Houghton's collections?" (Spoiler alert: it depends!)

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Why yes, this is a Gutenberg Bible.

There are 20 more complete ones (like this) in existence. All in all, it’s been a productive day.

[medievalistsnet]

Johannes Gutenberg with Eric White - Medievalists.net

This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Eric White about Johannes Gutenberg’s life, his early entrepreneurship, and the inven

[dinosaurwithablog]

On a trip to Yale University, I went to one of their museums and saw this. I love it!! ❤️ I love how many animals are integrated within this one piece. I really enjoy going to museums. I, also, enjoy libraries. Next time I go to Yale, I'm gonna have a book reserved in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It houses really old books. They let the public peruse these ancient tomes!!! They even have the Gutenberg Bible, which is one of the first books to be printed using a printing press. I just want to hold it and feel the pages and smell the history that lies within it's covers.... but I digress. I love visiting Yale University. There's so much available to the public and so much to enjoy learning about. It's a great place!!! 😊😍

[victusinveritas]

[strvngevsvngels]

From my trip to the Morgan Library, New York City, this summer before I started grad school

[chelstudying]

june 2022

i also took a trip to dc this summer! here are some highlights from that!

[versey21]

23rd February

There Is No Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson

On this day in 1455, the so-called ‘Gutenberg Bible’ was printed. In the first example of mass production of a book, 180 “copies” of the original Bible were printed by Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. The arrival of large scale printing of the written word was to change the world. Dickinson’s poem extols the power of literature to transport the reader into a different reality.

Sources: Ann Ronan Pictures/ GettyImages/ www.history.com

There Is No Frigate Like a Book

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away;

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry -

This Travel may the poorest take

Without offence of Toll -

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human soul.

The availability of the Bible - in the vernacular of spoken living languages rather than in the Latin of the Church - put the Word of God potentially in the hands of every lay Christian. The need for the intercession of the priesthood began to be questioned by religious dissenters and the seeds of the Reformation were sown.