Gutenberg Bible
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It now houses approximately 178 million items, from ancient clay tablets to Stradivarius violins, from the Gutenberg Bible to ever-expanding digital records.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Did the Gutenberg Bible really help teach Europe’s illiterate masses to read, as the show’s character’s claim?
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
It is roughly the size of the Gutenberg Bible.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2022
The Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed in Europe, has 42 lines of text per column and is also called the “Forty-Two-Line Bible.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2020
The citations respecting the Gutenberg Bible are not from the Fasciculus Temporum, but from Die Cronica van der hilliger Stadt van Coellen, A.D.
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