Mainzer Riesenbibel der LoC online

Die Mainzer Riesenbibel der Library of Congress (LoC) ist digitalisiert online verfügbar (via Archivalia und blogs.loc.gov):

«On April 4, 1952, Lessing J. Rosenwald donated an exquisite treasure to the Library of Congress: the Giant Bible of Mainz. The date is noteworthy: Exactly 500 years earlier, on April 4, 1452, an anonymous scribe sat with his Calamus fidelis [faithful pen]—or so a statement in the manuscript tells us—and began diligently copying the Latin text of the Bible onto 459 vellum leaves.[1] The project would take more than a year, concluding on July 9, 1453. The first volume also includes a coat of arms of Bishop Rudolph von Rüdesheim and Emmerich Nauta, Abbot of Johannisberg Monastery, who influenced liturgical reforms in the diocese of Mainz.[2] This clue suggests that the Bible was produced in Mainz, the same city where Johannes Gutenberg was developing movable type and would publish his famed Gutenberg Bible.[3] And because of the dates in the manuscript itself, we can know that this manuscript Bible was indeed contemporaneous with Gutenberg’s masterpiece!»

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