Figure 14

Type of 42-line Bible, Mainz

From a copy in the Library of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York (facsimile), Biblia latina (scan)

1455

The larger type in the 31-line Indulgence is very much like that used in the 42-line Bible commonly ascribed to Gutenberg, but printed, perhaps, by Fust and Schoeffer at Mainz about 1455.

See chapter 4