![]() ![]() In addition to the 42-line Bible, Gutenberg is credited by some historians with a Book of Psalter, published by Fust and Schöffer but using new fonts and innovative techniques generally attributed to Gutenberg. Virtually bankrupt, Gutenberg is believed to have started a smaller printing shop in the town of Bamberg around 1459. This Gutenberg Bible Old Testament sold at auction in 1987 for $4,900,000. A paper copy of 324 leaves or 628 pages weighs 7.2 kilograms. This copy is one of the three existing copies printed, illuminated, and bound in Mainz, Germany, circa 1455, by Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468). The first volume of the first edition Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible, including books Genesis - Psalms. According to some historians, Friele Gensfleisch was a member of the aristocracy and worked as a goldsmith for the bishop at Mainz in the Catholic ecclesiastical mint. Johannes was the second of three children of patrician merchant Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden and his second wife, Else Wyrich, the daughter of a shopkeeper, whose family had once been members of the German noble classes. An "official birthday" of June 24, 1400, was chosen at the time of the 500th Anniversary Gutenberg Festival held in Mainz in 1900, but the date is purely symbolic. Johannes Gutenberg was born between 13 in the German city of Mainz. Published Works: Printed the 42-Line Bible ("The Gutenberg Bible"), Book of Psalter, and "Sibyl's Prophecy".Education: Apprentice to a goldsmith, may have enrolled at the University of Erfurt.Died: February 3, 1468, in Mainz, Germany.Parents: Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden and Else Wirich.Known For: Inventing the moveable type printing press. ![]()
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