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The Mazarin Bible

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 3, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 41.

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The Mazarin Bible

THE Lenox Library, in New York City, contains a magnificent copy of the Mazarin Bible, printed in Metz, by Guttenberg, in 1455. It is the first book printed from movable types, and yet, strange to say, it is one of the noblest monuments of the "art preservative of all arts" in existence. There are only two copies of this Bible on this continent, the other being owned by the heirs of the late George Brenley, of Hartford, Conn. The last copies sold at the Pekins sale, London, June 6, 1873, brought $17,000 for the one printed in vellum, and $13,550 for the one on paper.