GUTENBERG BIBLE

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Mandy Lender

 

A few facts about the Gutenberg Bible

The Morgan Library & Museum in New York is the only library in the world that has three copies, out of 49 copies known to exists, that were printed in 1455 Johannes Gutenberg.  Only one of the three copies in the Morgan Library is a complete original Gutenberg volume.

There are only five complete original Gutenberg editions (volumes) in the U.S. (Morgan Library NY, LO Congress, DC, Yale Beinecke Library, Harvard Widener Library, University of Texas Austin).

In 1968 Brussel & Brussel Publishers in NY, produced a limited edition of a 3 volumes reduced facsimile in black and white of the complete Gutenberg Bible.  Two volumes of the Hebrew Bible and the third volume is the New Testament. The New Testament volume has illustrations in color.

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If you are interested in owning this set of the Gutenberg Bible facsimile go here:
Gutenberg Bible Facsimile

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