The University of Seville is home to a volume of the 'Gutenberg Bible'
on March 15, 2011
The University of Sevilla holds one of the two volumes of known as the 'Gutenberg Bible', the first book printed in the movable type printing invented by Johannes Gutenberg. The volume is up to the New Testament.
The copy came from the Casa Profesa Seville University, "when there was the expusión of the Jesuits", explains Eduardo Peñalver, responsible for the 'Fund old and historical archives' section of the library of the University of Seville, is preserved where not exposed to the public. "We have many important specimens, but this one, for being the first printed book, has a special value." "Value in economic terms is impossible," adds Peñalver. The head of the Fund points out that in Spain there are two copies of the 'Gutenberg Bíblia' and that one of them is, in full, with its two volumes, in the public library of Burgos.
The 'old Fund' has 60,000 volumes, of which 8,000 are from the 16th century. Of these, 332 are incunables. There are also a thousand manuscripts, of which a dozen are codices.
