Description

None of the three editions of the Latin Bible printed before 1462 contains information about the place of printing, the printer, or the date of publication. The relative chronology of the oldest Bible editions thus relies on textual interdependencies and the typographical material used. The so-called “thirty-six-line Bible,” also known as B36, was based on a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (known as B42), as can be concluded from a typesetting error in the Stuttgart copy of the B36, where one page of the B42 was accidentally skipped. In contrast ...