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| - | :"If the [[Holy Bible]] was printed as an [[Ace Double"]], an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.’" --[[Charles McGrath]], [[New York Times]], May 6, 2007 | ||
| - | The word '''Bible''' refers to the [[Biblical canon|canonical]] collections of [[Religious text|sacred writings]] or books of [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]]. The bible was the first [[mass produced]] book. | + | The '''Gutenberg Bible''' (also known as the '''42-line Bible''', the '''Mazarin Bible''' or the '''B42''') was the first major book printed with a [[movable type]] [[printing press]], marking the start of the "[[Printing Revolution|Gutenberg Revolution]]" and the age of the printed book. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status. It is an edition of the [[Vulgate]], printed by [[Johannes Gutenberg]], in [[Mainz]], [[Germany]] in the 1450s. Only twenty-one complete copies survive, and they are considered by many sources to be the most valuable books in the world, even though a completed copy has not been sold since 1978. |
| - | ==Etymology== | + | |
| - | From Latin ''biblia'', a collection of books (since there are many books in the Bible), eventually from the ancient [[Phoenicia]]n city of ''[[Byblos]]'' which exported this writing material. | + | The [[36 Line Bible|36-line Bible]] is also sometimes referred to as a Gutenberg Bible, but is possibly the work of another printer. |
| - | == See also == | + | |
| - | *[[Bible translations]] | + | ==See also== |
| - | *[[Biblical stories]] | + | * For other works printed by Gutenberg or from the workshop he founded, ''See:'' [[Johannes Gutenberg]]. |
| - | *[[Bad women of the bible]] | + | * [[Incunable]] |
| - | *[[Illustrated bible]] | + | * [[36 Line Bible]] |
| - | *''[[Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible]]'' | + | * [[Printing press]] |
| - | *[[Doré's English Bible]] (1866) | + | * [[Codex Sinaiticus]] |
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The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the first major book printed with a movable type printing press, marking the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status. It is an edition of the Vulgate, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany in the 1450s. Only twenty-one complete copies survive, and they are considered by many sources to be the most valuable books in the world, even though a completed copy has not been sold since 1978.
The 36-line Bible is also sometimes referred to as a Gutenberg Bible, but is possibly the work of another printer.
See also
- For other works printed by Gutenberg or from the workshop he founded, See: Johannes Gutenberg.
- Incunable
- 36 Line Bible
- Printing press
- Codex Sinaiticus
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