According to some religious traditions, the Bible is the word of God. But who actually wrote it? The answer: a number of ...

While Renaissance Books carries thousands of well-known used books, there's no shortage of rarities within the store.

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.

Figure 1: The Gutenberg Bible. The image shows the lavishly decorated beginning of the book Genesis of the vellum Gutenberg Bible held at the State and University Library in Göttingen, Germany.

“This is a little remarkable because if you look at the Gutenberg Bible, there are two volumes. Each one’s 25 pounds. You’re not going to curl up in bed with it,” says Tabor.

FILE - Members of the New York Public Library Board of Trustees pose for a photo with the first Gutenberg Bible to reach the U.S. 100 years prior, before it is placed on display in the lobby of the ...

Since eight pages of the Gutenberg Bible sold in 2015 for $970,000 in 2015, if a portion of the missing Sasson Codex emerged, it would probably sell for many multiples of that.

A team from Keio University in Tokyo, the project's sponsor, have photographed the work into 1,300 high-definition images which have been put on the web. Kristian Jensen, head of Western European ...

Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, ...

Photo by Magali Gauthier. SLIDESHOW: A page from a Gutenberg Bible is scanned at SLAC in Menlo Park on July 25, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier.