A majority of this content is quoting this book.
I haven't read all of it yet, I tend to try to read too many books at once..
I wanted to jump back and inform you all of the first Bibles printed.. This book that my friend lent me has this information as well as a lot of other interesting and useful information.
These are all facts from the book.. I am not claiming credit for researching these things, I am simply stating what I am reading.
The Bible consist of sixty-six books. Thirty-nine in the Old Testament. Twenty-seven in the new.
Imagine back around 1448-ish.. This was a huge task!!
This book says that the sheer length of the Bible made it a major publishing undertaking and to print it in it's totality represented pressing the technology, then available, to it's uttermost limits.
How terrific. What a tremendous aspiration.
As far as can be established, Gutenberg began cutting the type for this project in 1449-1450. Composition began in 1452 and printing was completed in 1456.
Each page had two columns of text, consisting of forty-two lines of type.
In the final stages, six compositors were hired on to help.
As few as 185 copies were printed, 40 of which still exist today.
The cost of this would have been considerable. Each printed Bible consisted of 340 folio sheets. As each calf hide yielded two folio sheets, 170 animal hides were required for each of the two volumed Bibles.
The asking price for each Bible was thirty florins, estimated to be three years wages for a learned clerk.
As always I hope this was of some use for you all. Please take away the knowledge of the text, if nothing else..
Stephie
P.S. Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Very true..
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