!!!Gutenberg-Bibel

Gutenberg Bible, 42-line printed Bible, the most outstanding work of 
the early printing craft at Mainz in terms of technology and beauty of 
design, finished in the early summer of 1456. 47 copies are still 
extant throughout the world, 12 of which are on parchment. The 
monasteries of Melk and St. Paul im Lavanttal had to sell their Bibles 
to raise money in the interwar period. Today they are kept in the Yale 
University Library (New Haven, USA) and in the Library of Congress, 
Washington DC, USA.

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The history of the copy in the Austrian National Library (Ink. 
3. B. 14) can be traced back to the 15%%sup th/%  century in 
Tirol, where it was owned by Benedikt Wegmacher (d. 1490), 
chamberlain of Archduke Sigmund of Tirol. In 1783 it came, via 
Innsbruck, to the court library in Vienna.


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