Search Results: Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468) was the inventor of the printing press (c. 1450) who seems to have developed the device from wine and oil presses of the time. Gutenberg’s printing press not only revolutionized book making but literally...

Illuminated manuscripts were hand-made books, usually on Christian scripture or practice, produced in Western Europe between c. 500-c. 1600. They are so called because of the use of gold and silver which illuminates the text and accompanying...

Image of Johannes Gutenberg (l.c. 1398-1468), inventor of the printing press.

The arrival in Europe of the printing press with moveable metal type in the 1450s CE was an event which had enormous and long-lasting consequences. The German printer Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468 CE) is widely credited with the innovation...

Printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468). Gutenberg Museum, Mainz.

Gutenberg Bible, printed by Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, c. 1455. Rare Books Division, Lenox Library.

A replica of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press at the Featherbed Alley Printshop Museum, Bermuda.

The printing press, credited to the German inventor and printer Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468) in the 1450s, became the single most important factor in the success of the Protestant Reformation by providing the means for widespread...

The men who initiated and advanced the vision of the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) did not set out, at first, to challenge the authority of the Catholic Church but only to correct what they saw as errors. In doing so, they launched a...

Image of movable type in the modern age as invented by Johannes Gutenberg, responsible for the invention of the printing press in Europe c. 1440's.