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Page from Gutenberg's Bible
In 1450, Johann Gutenberg perfected moveable type, the basis for the printing press, an innovation that single-handedly revolutionized communications for the world. It allowed thousands of copies of a single literary work to be produced relatively quickly, then distributed far and wide. Access to literature would in following years become much more ready than it had ever been.
What literary work was the first choice for mass printing? The Bible. Afterward known as Gutenberg's Bible, that publication has survived today in only 48 copies (of an original printing of 180). The translation is the Vulgate, and so is written in Latin.
One page of that important document is coming to live in St. Louis. In a ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday, September 28th in DuBourg Hall's Pere Marquette Gallery, the leaf will be presented by Thomas and Virginia Cahill of Davis, California to Saint Louis University. (Virginia is a SLU graduate.
The page contains Gutenberg's own formulated ink, the composition of which was the subject of study by Thomas Cahill and colleagues at UC Davis.
For more info: Official announcement from SLU.
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