Word: sibyllenbuch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor to Gutenberg's two-volume, 1,282-page Bible, printed some-time between 1450 and 1455 with 42 lines of type a page. But doubts remained because of two cruder works of the mid-1400s: a rare 36-line Bible and a scrap of paper known as the Sibyllenbuch fragment, also printed in 36-line type. The question that has nagged scholars for years is whether these works were produced by Gutenberg or by someone known only as the 36-line printer...
Borrowing two of the world's 49 remaining volumes of the Gutenberg Bible, leaves from the 36-line Bible and the Sibyllenbuch fragment, the Davis team exposed them, one at a time, to the proton beam. The results of those tests, begun in 1982, are still being evaluated, but most of the doubts about Gutenberg's role have vanished. The Davis tests established that instead of carbon-based ink, the German printer employed a slurry of copper and lead for his famous Bible. Printed characters in both of the 36-line works, the X-ray patterns showed, consisted...
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