FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...
A Gutenberg Bible owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California, has enjoyed some exciting exploits in its 600-year history. It’s been owned by Silesian nobles, traded by a Scottish ...
Two sets of sacred documents — the Gutenburg Bible and the Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius — chronicle two religious traditions separated by cultures and entire continents. We might not know of ...
This post is in partnership with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A version of the article below was originally published on the Ransom Center’s Cultural Compass blog.
The Lilly Library at Indiana University houses a rare New Testament portion of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book ...
When railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington bought a rare edition of the Gutenberg Bible in 1911, he paid $55,000—the equivalent of around $1.8 million today. But despite the high price, Huntington’s ...
Dad’s Garage is bringing “GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!” back to its stage this June, more than a decade after the production’s ...