Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, ...

WASHINGTON — In 1864, Abraham Lincoln made a rare wartime trip out of Washington to visit a charity event in Philadelphia raising money to care for wounded soldiers. He donated 48 copies of the ...

The Bible is similar to one brought to North America by Pilgrims traveling aboard the Mayflower Courtesy of the F.B.I. In April 2017, a routine insurance appraisal of the Carnegie Library of ...

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious'. The Christian Bible has ...

British Library secures loan of giant Codex Amiatinus Bible from Laurentian library in Florence for exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England One of the greatest of all Anglo-Saxon treasures, the oldest ...

As someone who is a Christian minister in a public role, forms of that question come up often. They’re both highly variable and all orbiting around the common axis of, “It’s an old book, so…” In the ...

Though the word Bible comes from the Greek word biblios, meaning “scrolls,” the Bible was actually the first book to be printed by movable type (instead of being written by hand). Johann Gutenberg ...