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Gutenberg Bible
A spectacular Gutenberg Bible reproduction of Die Zweiudevierzigzellge Bible, Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz 1450-1453 facsimile; Leipzig, Insel-verlag 1913-1914 - 2 volumes
On display a bejeweled facsimile reprint of Gutenberg's 42 lines Latin Bible, the first book printed with movable metal type. The binding is by Emanuel Steiner of Basel and was copies from an original in the Standisch Landesbibliothek at Fulda, Germany. The leather uses in clasps and corners etc., are chased silver and the stones are blue malachite and onyx.
On display a bejeweled facsimile reprint of Gutenberg's 42 lines Latin Bible, the first book printed with movable metal type. The binding is by Emanuel Steiner of Basel and was copies from an original in the Standisch Landesbibliothek at Fulda, Germany. The leather uses in clasps and corners etc., are chased silver and the stones are blue malachite and onyx.
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The Gutenberg Bible was an immediate sensation. When Piccolomini visited the Frankfurt Fair in 1454 he was able to view proof sheets but not a complete copy because the whole edition was already sold out. The astonishingly high rate of survival -- of an estimated print run of 180 copies a full fifty can be identified today -- suggest that from the very beginning this was a book that was cherished and treated with awe. Most of the initial buyers were monasteries and ecclesiastical customers in the immediate viscinity of Mainz, though Piccolomini dispatched samples to the Emperor for his inspection. Institutional customers would have had access to the calligraphical expertise which added the rich decorative illumination that adorns most of the surviving copies. They would also have been able to afford the very high cost. Customers paid around 20 gulden for a paper copy of Gutenberg Bible and 50 for a copy on vellum. By way o comparisons, a stone-built house in Mainz would have cost between 80 and 100 gulden; a master craftsman would have earned between 20 and 30 gulden a year. ~ Page 29
“The Gutenberg bible is what a user around 1455 would expect a book to look like. If you want to sell something, you need to make something that your customer will recognize and understand. So Gutenberg produced something that looked just like a traditional book. One of the ways you can tell that it is printed is by looking closely at the ink, which has a very shiny surface. When you write a book by hand, you sue a water-based ink. You put your pen into it and the ink runs off. That does not work if you are printing, because the ink will also run off the press and spoil the page. So one of Gutenberg’s inventions was a ink which was not ink. What we call printer’s ink is actually a varnish, which means that the sticks to its surface and does not run, and that means that it looks different. ~ Page 286
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