The Gutenberg Bible, preserved in the National Library of France (BnF), can be consulted online at Gallica, the institution’s digital library.
“The two copies preserved in the BnF can now be consulted in Gallica. A summary have been added, to make the navigation of the biblical text more comfortable and to satisfy the needs of the researchers and the curious”, the BnF said in a statement this Monday.
TWO COPIES OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
Digitized in high definition, the two copies of the Gutenberg Bible (only fifty are left in the world) were printed in the first printing office of Gutenberg, with movable types, circa 1455.
The first copy (in four volumes), is one of the very rare and prestigious complete copies printed on parchment, magnificently illustrated when the book was made.
Read More: The first printed Bible, available online
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