Printing and writing materials : their evolution . the number of lines to the page in a col-umn. It is not known which was printed first,but it is generally believed that the forty-two-lineBible is the earlier. This is generally called theMazarin Bible, ^ because the copy which firstattracted notice was discovered in 1760 in thelibrary of Cardinal Mazarin at Paris; it is alsoknown as Gutenbergs First Bible. It is believedthat this Bible could not have been begun beforeAugust, 1450, and that it was finished in 1455, butthe exact dates are not known. The Paris copycontains the rubricators inscri
Printing and writing materials : their evolution . the number of lines to the page in a col-umn. It is not known which was printed first,but it is generally believed that the forty-two-lineBible is the earlier. This is generally called theMazarin Bible, ^ because the copy which firstattracted notice was discovered in 1760 in thelibrary of Cardinal Mazarin at Paris; it is alsoknown as Gutenbergs First Bible. It is believedthat this Bible could not have been begun beforeAugust, 1450, and that it was finished in 1455, butthe exact dates are not known. The Paris copycontains the rubricators inscription, which showsthat the work was completed before the 15thof August, 1456. The thirty-six-line Bible hasreceived the name of Pfisters or the BmnbergBible, because the type used in it was once ownedby Albrecht Pfister of Bamberg. A copy of thisBible was discovered in 1728, in the library ofa monasterv near Mainz. A note found in the 1 The Earl of Ashburnhams copy of the Mazarin Bible, on vellum,?was sold in 1897 for £4,000, or about $20,000,. a-nftofon^cctm Me doaana^ liiens-j onllcfima mc^ THE lUXHEIM SAINT THRISTOPHKR, 1423. INVENTION OF TYPOGRAPHY 31 manuscript catalogue of the library states thatthe Bible was given to the monastery by JohnGutenberg and his associates. The date 1461is written on a copy of the last leaf of this book,also preserved in the National Library at Paris. These two editions of the Bible bear no printeddate, ^ and were published, like all of Gutenbergsworks, without name or place of printer. Thegreat expense which he incurred and the fear oflawsuits may have led him to omit his name fromthe books he printed—a fact which makes it diffi-cult to identify all of them. Among some of the later works ascribed to ^ , Later works Gutenberg were: the Calendar of 1457; a Letter of ^^f^^^^Indulgence of 1461; and the Catholicon of 1460,written by John of Genoa, of the fraternity ofpreachers or mendicant friars, which contains aLatin grammar and an etymologica
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