Scheide Library
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The Scheide Library, once a private library, is now a permanent part of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Princeton University Library. It is housed in the Harvey S. Fireston
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Gutenberg Bible
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The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, is the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type. It marked the start of the "Gut
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…donation in the university's history. The Scheide Library is the only library outside of Europe to possess all four of the first printed bibles: the Gutenberg Bible, the 1460 Bible (or Mentelin Bible), the 36-line Bible, and the 1462 Bible. Other notable holdings include manuscripts by Abraham Lincoln, J.S. Bach…
Gutenberg Bible of the New York Public Library; purchased by James Lenox in 1847, it was the first Gutenberg Bible to be acquired by a United States citizen.
The copy of the Gutenberg Bible held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Gutenberg Bible in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
Spine of the Lenox copy