Immenhauser Gutenberg Bible
The Immenhäuser Gutenberg Bible is a book printing product by the printer Johann Gutenberg .
incunabulum
The Immenhäuser Gutenberg Bible was discovered in 1958 in the attic of the Immenhausen town church St. Georg . In 1975 the Bible was scientifically examined and identified as Johannes Gutenberg's printed product from the period between 1452 and 1454. The incunable is a paper copy of the Old Testament of a Gutenberg Bible of 150 editions. The Immenhausen Gutenberg Bible has been kept in the Kassel Murhard library since 1978 .
history
The Bible originally belonged to a Carmelite monastery in Mainz . It was then owned by Martin Luther and was passed on to Bartholomaeus Rieseberg , who preached in Immenhausen and left handwritten notes in the margin. The Gutenberg Bible then went to the Marienhof Monastery in Immenhausen.
The Gutenberg Bible has been in the possession of the Immenhausen parish since 1530.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of October 19, 2010
- ↑ Gutenberg Bible for Kassel permanently saved ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the University of Kassel from November 23, 2010
