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The Gutenberg Bible
Somewhere in the year 1454 or 1455, in a rented workshop in the city of Mainz, a goldsmith named Johann Gutenberg pulled the bar of a wooden screw press and lifted away…
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The Codex Amiatinus
Of the great pandects copied by the early medieval monasteries of Latin Christendom, only one is, in a real sense, still alive on a public library shelf. It is the codex now…
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The Latin Vulgate and Jerome’s Translation of the Bible
The Latin Vulgate is, in the modern inventory of biblical texts, the principal vernacular Bible of the western Christian tradition. The Vulgate was produced in the late 4th century by the Dalmatian-born…