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Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible

Posted by Joseph & Jazmin on December 15, 2013March 22, 2014

Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible

The Polonsy Foundation Digitization Project, which aims to digitize the collections of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican’s Biblioteca Apostolica, made a virtual version of the Gutenberg Bible available online.

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