GUTENBERG GENZFLJAJSH JOHANN. MANUFACTURING OF BOOKS

it is possible to see elements of typographical business In the Strasbourg judicial certificates of 1439. Fragments of some editions of that period, so-called donatov (grants on grammar) Besides, have remained, calendars, dictionaries and indulgences (certificates on absolution), and also ' Sivillinoj of the book ' which can be dated 1440 All these type-setting editions reflected an early stage of the first gutenbergovskogo a font.

In 1448 the first printer has returned to native Mainz where has entered into the agreement about ' manufacturing of books ' with rich townspeople Johann Fustom, the goldsmith, 800 guldens which have lent to it on the security of the certain device, which Gutenberg was obliged for it to make. According to the concluded contract of Fust became the co-owner of printing house of Gutenberg.

About 1452-1455 the first of reached to us entirely the book printed in Europe - the well-known 42-lower case Bible is dated. In total 150-180 copies from which have remained only 49 have been printed. Krupnoformatnaja the Latin Bible which has left in Mainz, or as it still name, Biblija Mazarini - the most known and really remarkable creation of mind and Johann Gutenberg's hands. Researchers-gutenbergovedy, usually so raznorechivye, in this case are amazingly unanimous. All of them consider the 42-lower case Bible ' gutenbergovskim ' as a masterpiece that finally defines the relation of mankind to the inventor.

Known French writer Anatole Frants wrote: ' Despite the fact that what in our data on Johann Gutenberg's life a lot of not clear and doubtful, it remains for us the inventor of publishing until it will be possible to challenge the edition it Mazarinievoj of the Bible for this Bible is the first monument of the developed and strong art … ' Except the Bible in Johann Gutenberg's printing house other editions, including ' the Turkish calendar ' (1454) were printed also The calling Christian world to respond to events in Constantinople which in 1453 was is taken by storm by sultan Mehmedom II. In total it is known more than 50 editions printed during lifetime of Gutenberg which attribute to its typographical machine tool. Precisely to establish and prove authorship knigopechatnika it is not obviously possible in the absence of the target data on editions. Therefore researchers as arguments use the data of the analysis of fonts, papers, etc. In certain cases as it was, for example, with the 42-lower case Bible, as the additional proof judicial documents serve.