Gutenberg Bible

The Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed from movable type.

Gutenberg, Johann 2002

The app gives you access to high-resolution photos of more than a hundred of the museum's most revered documents, including a Gutenberg Bible, an original copy of the Magna Carta, and pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.

John Lundberg: Want To Read The Original 'Beowulf' Manuscript? There's An App For That John Lundberg 2011

Since the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest surviving work of literature from 3rd millennium B.C.) writ on clay tablets and papyrus, and onward to the Book Of Sibyls (the eldest surviving remnant of a medieval poem printed before the Gutenberg Bible), it goes without saying that poets have never made a sustained living based on the sales record of their books alone.

Feliz L. Molina: A Poetic Labor Day Weekend Feliz L. Molina 2011

Appraiser Ken Sanders says it's the find of his career: a copy of "The Nuremberg Chronicle," published as a companion to The Gutenberg Bible, in 1494.

600 Year Old Book Found In Sandy, Utah 2011

Since the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest surviving work of literature from 3rd millennium B.C.) writ on clay tablets and papyrus, and onward to the Book Of Sibyls (the eldest surviving remnant of a medieval poem printed before the Gutenberg Bible), it goes without saying that poets have never made a sustained living based on the sales record of their books alone.

Feliz L. Molina: A Poetic Labor Day Weekend Feliz L. Molina 2011

The app gives you access to high-resolution photos of more than a hundred of the museum's most revered documents, including a Gutenberg Bible, an original copy of the Magna Carta, and pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.

John Lundberg: Want To Read The Original 'Beowulf' Manuscript? There's An App For That John Lundberg 2011

The app gives you access to high-resolution photos of more than a hundred of the museum's most revered documents, including a Gutenberg Bible, an original copy of the Magna Carta, and pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.

John Lundberg: Want To Read The Original 'Beowulf' Manuscript? There's An App For That John Lundberg 2011

And he has educated opinions about, say, the letter spacing in the Gutenberg Bible mashed up pretty tight, he says.

It's Not Your Eyes…the Fine Print Is Getting Really, Really Small Missy Sullivan 2012

The app gives you access to high-resolution photos of more than a hundred of the museum's most revered documents, including a Gutenberg Bible, an original copy of the Magna Carta, and pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.

John Lundberg: Want To Read The Original 'Beowulf' Manuscript? There's An App For That John Lundberg 2011

Peek at the original Gutenberg Bible, set beneath glass in a wood-slatted enclosure.

Take Monday Off: Austin Kate Bolick 2011