Gutenberg
Mainz, around 1450: a goldsmith, a punch, a matrix, a hand mould, an oil-based ink and a converted press. The 42-line Bible, the lawsuit with Fust that took the business away from him, and the argument about what he actually invented and what he borrowed.
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- - Gutenberg Bible - Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468. Johann Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, around 1400, the son of an aristocratic family with ties to the local metalworking industry. He lived in Strasbourg (in present-day France) for a time, where he carried out experiments with moveable metallic type made from a mold. By the mid-1450s, he had perfected a system of printing with moveable type that he used to create what became the world’s mo
- - Germania, biblia latina (bibbia di gutenberg), 1455-56 ca. (saint-omer, bibliothèque de l'agglomeration du pay. The Gutenberg Bible of about 1455, the first substantial European book printed with movable type. Some frames photograph a facsimile on display.
- - Replica of gutenberg bible. The Gutenberg Bible of about 1455, the first substantial European book printed with movable type. Some frames photograph a facsimile on display.
- - Gutenbergbibel aus Rendsburg. The Gutenberg Bible of about 1455, the first substantial European book printed with movable type. Some frames photograph a facsimile on display.
- - Gutenberg-bible - Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. Commentary on Solomon's from Gutenberg's Latin bible, circa 1453 -1456.
- - Veiling van de Gutenbergbijbel van Charles William Dyson Perrins bij Sotheby's te Londen. Identificatie Titel(s): Veiling van de Gutenbergbijbel van Charles William Dyson Perrins bij Sotheby's te Londen Objecttype: prent foto Objectnummer: RP-P-2015-26-1772 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228; stempel, verso, gestempeld: ‘ Copyright: Publiek domein
- - Hebrew manuscripts after Gutenberg. A Met lecture on how Hebrew illuminated manuscripts and decorated printed books coexisted after printing arrived.
- - The book that changed the world. Library of Congress on its Gutenberg Bible and what movable type did to Europe.
- - The missing history of metal-type books. On Korean metal movable type before Gutenberg and why the tradition is so little known outside East Asia.
- - Jikji, 78 years before the Gutenberg Bible. An account of the Korean metal-type book of 1377 and its place in the chronology of printing.
- - Gutenberg bible, Genesis, Chapter XI, Volume I-9r - Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin - DSC0. Exhibit in the Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain.
- - Birds of America on permanent display at Yale. The Beinecke keeps only two books permanently open to the public: the Gutenberg Bible and Audubon's Birds of America.
- - The machine that made us: Gutenberg's press. A documentary reconstructing Gutenberg's printing technology and the making of his Bible.
- - Turning the page of a Gutenberg Bible. The Beinecke's Gutenberg Bible sits open in a case year-round; curators turn its pages a few times a year to limit light exposure to any single opening.
- - The Gutenberg press at the International Printing Museum. A museum tour of a working reconstruction of Gutenberg's press, showing how a page was set and pulled.
- - A Gutenberg press demonstration. A curator operates a reconstructed Gutenberg-style wooden press, inking with dabbers and pulling an impression.
- - Three Gutenberg Bibles at the Morgan. Virtual tour of the Morgan Library's Gutenberg Bibles, the only institution holding three significant copies, with detail on the c.1455 printing of around 180 copies.
- - The Gutenberg Bible. Museum of Printing lecture by Professor Frank Romano on Gutenberg and the printed Bible.
- - The Gutenberg Bible at the Morgan Library. The Morgan Library, which holds three copies, presents the first substantial book printed with movable type in Europe.
- - From Jikji to Gutenberg. A collaboration of historians, conservators and material specialists comparing the Korean and European metal-type traditions.
- - Johannes Gutenberg and the first printing press. A documentary presented by Stephen Fry on Gutenberg's invention and the printing of his Bible.
- - A Chinese Buddhist text printed before Gutenberg. Indiana University's Lilly Library shows a woodblock-printed Abhidharma text, an example of Chinese printing centuries ahead of movable type in Europe.
- - The origin of movable metal type: Gutenberg, inventor or innovator?. Korean documentary examining Gutenberg's claim to priority against the Korean metal-type tradition.
- - How a Gutenberg press actually works. A working demonstration of the screw press: inking the forme, laying the sheet, pulling the bar.
- - Gutenberg Bible on display at the U.S. Library of Congress
- - Gutenberg Bible in the John Rylands Library (01). A 15th-century Gutenberg Bible, formerly owned by a monastery in Colmar, northeast France, displayed at the John Rylands Library. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - Gutenberg and the European invention of printing. A lecture on what Gutenberg actually invented, and why the type mould matters more than the press.