Late Middle Ages · Europe · Technology
1455
Gutenberg Bible Published
1455
Fust and his son-in-law Peter Schoffer, having sued Gutenberg for his debts and seized the press, began selling the first printed Bibles at the Frankfurt book fair. A cardinal wrote to the pope praising the clarity of the type. Nobody yet quite understood that the manuscript age was finishing. Forty-nine copies survive today, and the clarity of their Gothic textura typeface established a standard printers pursued for generations.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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