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The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West. The book is valued and revered for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities [1] and its historical significance.
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...
The Old Man and the Sea. (1958 film) The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the 1952 novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway . Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film.
The Old Man and the Sea. The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major fictional work Hemingway published during his lifetime. It tells the story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin.
Here’s a look at how its printing influenced the history of books and the religious landscape. And what a 500-year-old volume can still reveal. What is a Gutenberg Bible? The term refers to each of the two-volume Bibles printed in Gutenberg’s workshop around 1454. Before that, all existing Bibles were copied by hand.
This is a list of movies (including television movies) based on the Bible ( Old Testament and New Testament ), depicting characters or figures from the Bible, or broadly derived from the revelations or interpretations therein.
The Old Man and the Sea is a 1990 American-British adventure drama television film directed by Jud Taylor and written by Roger O. Hirson, based on the 1952 novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.
Tales From the Guttenberg Bible ends with the production of Three Men and a Baby — which holds the record of being the highest-grossing movie of 1987 and of Guttenberg's entire career — at ...