Gutenberg most likely completed his printed masterpiece, the 42-Line Bible, by 1455 at the latest. The 42-Line Bible, like all of Gutenbergs typographic productions, was never attributed to him during his lifetime, but it later became known as the Gutenberg Bible. Many of the details of Gutenbergs work became known to historians through records of a lawsuit that Gutenberg lost against Fust and Peter Schffer, a calligrapher and Fusts future son-in-law. Records of the case, dated November 6, 1455, indicated that Gutenberg was the designer of the press. Though it has been estimated that the sale of the Bible would have produced many times the necessary sum owed to Fust by Gutenberg, it was inexplicably not counted among the latters assets at the trial.
The court awarded Fust control of the type for the Bible and for Gutenbergs other major work, a Psalter , as well as at least some of Gutenbergs other printing equipment. The first printed book in Europe to bear the name of its printer was a fine Psalter produced in August 1457 by Fust and Schffer. Most historians agree that it was Gutenberg who had most likely developed the techniques used to produce the Psalter before he lost control of his equipment in November 1455. Strong evidence to support Gutenbergs claim to the invention of typography came not only from the trial records but from Schffers son and Fusts grandson, Johann Schffer, who wrote in 1505 that the admirable art of typography was invented by the ingenious Johan Gutenberg at Mainz in 1450.
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