[Gutenberg Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Luke] – Vintage Print
![[Gutenberg Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Luke], [1454 or 1455] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c5/c5ee58739e2b-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Gutenberg Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Luke]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Gutenberg Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Luke]
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Two facing pages from the Gutenberg Bible open at the start of the Gospel of Luke, shown here as a reproduction from Leonard C. Bruno's 1995 survey of Western technology. Johannes Gutenberg printed this Latin Bible in Mainz around 1454 or 1455 using movable metal type, one of the first major books produced this way in Europe. Notice that the large decorated initials and red headings were not printed. Scribes and illuminators added them by hand after the text was printed, so the pages mix mechanical type with traditional craftsmanship.
| Created / published | [1454 or 1455] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : letterpress. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1450-1460.Letterpress works 1450-1460. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Reproduction of two pages from the Gutenberg Bible. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 84. |
| Subjects | Bibles--1450-1460. Gutenberg Bible--1450-1460. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,294 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186745 |
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