Gutenberg Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type

Gutenberg Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, and as the Mazarin Bible) is a print of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany in the fifteenth century. The printed bible is a possible imitation of a Mainz illuminated manuscript, the so called Giant Bible of Mainz (Biblia latina), whose 1300 pages were written in two years, 1452-53"