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.

After being separated for two hundred years, a rare 15th-century devotional print, “Christ on the Mount of Olives,” has been reunited with the Gutenberg Bible that once held it.

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German ...

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.

Canterbury Tales go online. Only 425 copies of the book were ever produced. ... "This project follows the library's successful digitisation of its two copies of the Gutenberg Bible, a site which ...

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, ...

SLIDESHOW: A page from a Gutenberg Bible at SLAC in Menlo Park on July 25, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Every inch of the document is analyzed, ...

Experts estimate that an original printed Gutenberg Bible would likely sell for about $35 million at auction. The McCain Library’s Special Collections department debuted the “Item of the Month” ...