Book printing had already started before the gutenberg press started to print the bible, the first printed book was the Dimond Sutra, it was printed in Japan (in 868 AD) , why is the gutenberg bible considered the first printed book?
Good question. I think that Gutenberg is the first typeset printed book, while the Diamond Sutra used wood blocks. The Diamond Sutra is first printed book, but I think the Gutenberg gets more attention because it started a reading revolution since so many people have access to books because of the printing press.
The fibers in cotton gloves are actually more likely to catch and tear pages, so most conservators and scholars find that clean, gloveless hands are the safest way to handle rare books!
It obviously was not the first book, many manuscripts of scripture existed before this. But it acts as one of the first recorded piece of works that was printed using manmade technology i.e. a printing press. Before this manuscripts were put together using scribes and handwritten. They were immense & detailed which took ages to complete one single manuscript. Gutenberg's bible alone comprised of a forty-two-line manuscript of 643 folio leaves (pages) and required a whopping 300 sheep to produce the parchment / paper to fill the book.
@@darnit1944 We here in the Uk are told that the British Museum should return artifacts to their home countries, such as the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone. So a Guternberg should be returned to Germany.
@@johntomlinson6849 First of all, this is the Morgan Library and Museums. And second, where's the cultural appropriation part? This is just retelling of history.
@@johntomlinson6849 Oh but it is printed in the Latin language, which is by your logic, cultural appropriation by the germans, therefore it should be returned to Italy.
