What is it about?
The Morgan Library is the only institution in the world to have three largely-complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible. But the histories of these three copies and how they traveled from the printing press in Mainz to their current home in New York are quite different.
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Why is it important?
Books are more than just text or words on a page, but reflect how owners and readers of books treated that text over time. This essay charts how three copies moved from being a useful and used text to collector's item, artifact, and relic.
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This page is a summary of: From Mainz to Manhattan: the Morgan Library’s Three Gutenberg Bibles, November 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004689855_010.
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