A Gutenberg Bible owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California, has enjoyed some exciting exploits in its 600-year history. It’s been owned by Silesian nobles, traded by a Scottish ...
When railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington bought a rare edition of the Gutenberg Bible in 1911, he paid $55,000—the equivalent of around $1.8 million today. But despite the high price, Huntington’s ...
After being separated for two hundred years, a rare 15th-century devotional print, “Christ on the Mount of Olives,” has been reunited with the Gutenberg Bible that once held it. The print shows Christ ...
The Huntington Library is renowned for several iconic pieces — the Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript and Shakespeare’s Folio, to name just a few. Visitors expect to see them ...
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