Late Middle Ages · Europe · Technology

1454

Gutenberg Bible Nearing Completion

1454

In Mainz, Gutenberg's press was producing sheets of the forty-two-line Latin Bible at a rate no scribe could match. Each copy required three hundred animal skins or reams of paper. The edition would be around one hundred eighty copies. A few buyers noticed that the letters were identical, page after page.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: July 17, 1453: Battle of Castillon
After: May 22, 1455: First Battle of Saint Albans

Before and after in Technology

Before: 1450: Gutenberg Prints First Trial Pages
After: 1455: Gutenberg Bible Published

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.