The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, founded by Pierpont Morgan

From the Collection:

Biblia Latina

One of three Gutenberg Bibles in the Morgan's holdings, this copy contains twenty-two pages with unique typesettings, probably representing a last-minute attempt to compensate for sheets found to be either missing or complete. This laborious procedure bespeaks the expense and difficulty of producing the first book printed from movable type in Europe, an ambitious venture requiring a formidable investment in labor and materials. Indeed Gutenberg could not pay his share of the production costs and was forced out of the Bible business—although not out of business altogether. He engaged in other printing projects and continued to explore the implications of his momentous invention.

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Rembrandt and Picasso, Mozart, Bob Dylan, Dickens and Hemingway, Gutenberg Bibles, and Babar the elephant, The Morgan Library & Museum is, in the words of The New York Times, "extra special, in a class of its own."

Located in midtown Manhattan at Madison Avenue and 36th Street, the Morgan houses one of the world's greatest collections of artistic, literary, and musical works, from ancient times to the medieval and Renaissance periods to the present day.

CORSAIR, the Morgan's online collection catalog, is available here.