Scourge of Wolves

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Natural History, Incunable, Global Spread of the Printing Press, Gutenberg Bible, Hebrew Incunabula, Allan H. Stevenson, Block Book, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Speculum Humanae Salvationis, Ars Moriendi, a Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Bodleian Library, Johannes de Thurocz, 36-Line Bible, Nuremberg Chronicle, Sibyllenbuch Fragment, Lyme Caxton Missal, Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, Mainz Psalter, Biblia Pauperum, Bibliotheca Universalis, Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, Frederick R. Goff, Fasciculus Medicinae, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, Oktoih, Ilona Hubay, Missale Aboense, Almanach Cracoviense Ad Annum 1474, Dialogus Creaturarum, Gesamtkatalog Der Wiegendrucke, Arend de Keysere, Ludwig Hain, Valencian Bible, Oktoikh, 1491, Naples Bible, Buda Chronicle. Excerpt: The 36-line Bible , also known as the "Bamberg Bible" and sometimes called a "Gutenberg Bible", is the second printed edition of the Bible, after the Gutenberg Bible . It is believed to have been printed in Bamberg , Germany, about 1458-60. No printer's name appears in the book, but it is possible that Johannes Gutenberg was responsible. The name refers to the 36 lines of text printed on each page, and distinguishes it from the Gutenberg Bible, or 42-line Bible.Date In the past, some scholars argued that the 36-line Bible was an early and primitive version of Gutenberg's 42-line Bible, which would have meant it was printed prior to 1455. Careful comparison of the texts, however, has since shown that, with the exception of the first few pages of each volume, the 36-line Bible was set from the Gutenberg Bible. This proves that the 42-line Bible came first. The date 1461 was marked by a rubricator in one copy of the Bible, showing that it could not h...