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 ...

The Gutenberg Bible ranks among the most prized of rare books, but within three centuries of its printing around 1455, its version of Scripture was considered obsolete and its creator, Johannes ...

NEW YORK — It's not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan.

One is called the “Noble” fragment, two pages of a Gutenberg bible dismembered by a New York antiquarian in the early 1920s, who sold off and donated individual leaves of the book. Only 20 ...

For most of us, however, the Age of Print that was inaugurated around 1455 by the Gutenberg Bible has already passed into the Age of the Internet which, ICYMI, began in 1994 with the launch of ...

Yes, that Gutenberg Bible. These original pages, that date back to the 15th century, have come to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Northern California to be blasted by a high-powered X-ray.

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 ...

A 15th-Century Print Is Reunited With the Gutenberg Bible It Once Accompanied The print was removed from the bible and auctioned off 200 years ago Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455–1500.

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan.

Each Gutenberg Bible has nearly 1,300 pages and weighs around 60 pounds. ... McQuillen was the one to figure out the origin of its decoration: a German monastery that no longer exists.