📜 The Gutenberg Bible is the first great book printed in Western Europe from movable metal type, a monument marking a turning point in bookmaking and the transition to the modern world.
✨ One of only three perfect vellum copies known to exist, it is on permanent display in a specially-designed, 11-foot-tall vertical case.
📚 Printed in Mainz, Germany, in 1454/1455 by Johannes Gutenberg and Johannes Fust, it revolutionized communication.

Why Go

📜 Witness a masterpiece of early printing and craftsmanship.
✨ See one of only three perfect vellum copies in existence.
📚 Explore a book that transformed Western European communication and knowledge.
💡 Admire the innovative display case preserving the centuries-old book.

Tips

📍 Located in a corridor off the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building.
📝 Researchers need an adult reader registration card to access rare materials in the reading room.