University of Texas at Austin Puts Gutenberg Bible Online

The University of Texas at Austin has scanned in its Gutenberg Bible, making thousands of images available from its Web site at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/ .

Before you get into the page images, take the time to view a few other images on this site, including "The Book before Gutenberg" and "Anatomy of a Page" (apparently even monks scribble in margins.) An "Additional Resources" page gives a brief bibliography of materials related to Gutenberg Bibles and points to Web sites which contain other digitizations of Gutenberg Bibles.

The Gutenberg Bible itself is available under the Digital Gutenberg Images link. From this link you'll see links to the first part of the Bible, with a pulldown menu leading to other sections (they're broken down by books.) Images are presented in a series of thumbnails, two pages at a time. Click on the thumbnail and you'll get a larger version of the page with the option to get a larger left page, right page, or a larger image of both pages.

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