Tag: Gutenberg Bible
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New Light on the Rylands Gutenberg Bible
In 2013, the John Rylands Library in Manchester used multi-spectral imaging to recover an almost completely erased ownership inscription in volume I of their Gutenberg Bible (figure 1).[1] The provenance of this Bible had been unknown prior to its nineteenth-century owner, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), until the previous year when Eric Marshall White,…
Kelsey Jackson Williams 