Genesis

€79.00*

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Gutenberg Bible I/5, Genesis (First Book of Moses 1,1–30): »In principio creavit deus...«

In six days, God created the heavens and the earth, light and darkness, water and land, plants, animals and people. We offer this famous passage from the Good Book in two deluxe versons based on the Göttingen and Berlin copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Both are heralded as the surviving Bibles with the most beautiful illumination. Our versions 1 to 3 are based on the Berlin Gutenberg Bible. The initial »I« of »In principio creavit deus...« fills the left margin and depicts the story of Creation in six medaillions. 

Our variants 

  • Standard
    Ribbed deckle-edge paper, format 42 x 30 cm
    Three-colour press prints produced on historical Gutenberg Museum machines (Original Heidelberg Cylinder) in three different print runs on mechanically-produced, hand-torn, ribbed deckle-edge paper. The outlines of ornamentation are also printed. 

  • Hand-coloured
    Ribbed deckle-edge paper, format 42 x 30 cm, frame format 48 x 36 cm 
    The standard pages (see above) are coloured by hand by our artists using tempera and gold inks. 

  • Hand-gilded 
    Format ca. 45 x 32 cm, frame format 54 x 43 cm
    These high-quality prints are produced as a handpress print in three colours on the Korrex Hannover on handmade paper bearing the Gutenberg Museum watermark. Finely embossed gold embellishments are added to the tempera ink colouring using a skill very few artists still master. A base material is applied to the paper layer by layer in an elaborate and time-consuming process to form a platform for the 22-carat gold leaf. This raises the ornaments from the surface of the paper to perfectly display the elegant shimmer of real gold. 

  • Deluxe (Berlin Bible)
  • Deluxe (Göttingen Bible)

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