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[Gutenberg Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Luke]
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[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: John 1:1]
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[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Mark 1:1]
Exhibits famous Gutenberg Bible. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of the Library of Congress, exhibits the famous Gutenberg Bible, printed about 1450 by John Gutenberg, the inventor of printing. The Bible is a part of the Vollbehr collection, brought to the United States this year by a special Congressional approriation and now open th the public at the Library. 12/15/30
[Herbert Putnam, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, with the three volume Gutenberg Bible, Library of Congress]
![[Herbert Putnam, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, with the three volume Gutenberg Bible, Library of Congress]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1930/01/01/herbert-putnam-half-length-portrait-standing-facing-right-with-the-three-volume-640.jpg "[Herbert Putnam, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, with the three volume Gutenberg Bible, Library of Congress]")
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Luke 1:1]
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Invention of printing - Gutenberg taking the first proof
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 1:1]
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[Head-and-shoulders portraits of Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Peter Schöffer, Melanchton, Johann Fust, and Lucas Cranach] / Stahlstich v. Carl Mayer's Kunst-Anstalt in Nürnberg.
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La Bible de Gutenberg exemplaire "St.-Blaise-St.-Paul" sur vélin
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[Gutenberg Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Luke]
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: John 1:1]
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Mark 1:1]
Exhibits famous Gutenberg Bible. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of the Library of Congress, exhibits the famous Gutenberg Bible, printed about 1450 by John Gutenberg, the inventor of printing. The Bible is a part of the Vollbehr collection, brought to the United States this year by a special Congressional approriation and now open th the public at the Library. 12/15/30
[Herbert Putnam, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, with the three volume Gutenberg Bible, Library of Congress]
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Luke 1:1]
Photograph of the Gutenburg Bible, Library of Congress, November 1944
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 1:1]
Photograph of the Gutenburg Bible, Library of Congress, November 1944
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[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: John 1:1]
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Mark 1:1]
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Luke 1:1]
[Pages from the Gutenberg Bible, 1455: the 1st pages of the Gospels and the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 1:1]