Gutenberg Bible – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Gutenberg Bible, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The record names the Gutenberg Bible, the 15th-century book printed by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, which is generally regarded as the first major book printed from movable metal type in Europe. This print is a photograph dated to about 1921, so it shows the book as an early twentieth-century viewer would have seen it, likely through a library or exhibition display rather than in person at its making. The caption card that accompanied it has not been verified, so the exact date and the circumstances of the picture are best treated as approximate. Still, the subject itself is worth noticing: the Bible's careful typography and hand-finished pages set a standard that shaped printing for centuries.
| Created / published | c1921 Sept. 14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158973 |
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