Gutenberg Bible Now Online

The BBC is reporting that the Gutenberg Bible -- two copies of it, in fact -- have been successfully digitized and are now online. These bibles are from the 15th century and not many of them are still left.

The British Library site containing the bibles is at http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/ default.asp" . The paper copy starts at http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/record.asp?strCopy=k&strPage=1r1&strSize=mid . The vellum copy starts at http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/record.asp?strCopy=g&strPage=-2r1&strSize=m id .

You can search through the Bibles, or simply go through the pages. Looks like each page is about 70-80K. Clicking on a page gives you a large copy -- I suspect larger than actual size. The pages I loaded weighed in around 1MB. (pages from the paper Bible seemed to be larger than the vellum Bible.)

Searching the Bibles is not a matter of searching for keywords. Instead, you choose a part of the Bibles (you can choose to search the paper version, vellum version, or both) and you're presented with a page of thumbnails. You may click on one of those pages and you'll be taken to that page. The thumbnails are not large enough to make out any detail, unfortunately.

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