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Gutenberg Bible

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noun

  1. an edition of the Vulgate printed at Mainz before 1456, ascribed to Gutenberg and others: probably the first large book printed with movable type.


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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.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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