Digitized Gutenberg Bibles for the Lyell Lectures 2021

The Bodleian’s Lyell Lectures 2021 series will be given by Paul Needham on “The Genesis, Life, and Afterlife of the Gutenberg Bible”. To accompany the series, we have gathered together over twenty IIIF-enabled digitized copies of the Gutenberg Bible, in 34 volumes.

View all digitized Gutenberg Bibles

All 34 digitized volumes can be viewed here.

Digitized copies

This collection comprises (mostly) fully-digitized copies of the Gutenberg Bible which are published by their holding instututions as IIIF objects, meaning they can be easily shared and viewed across a range of compatible applications.

Some libraries publish both volumes as a single object, others as two separate volumes. Some libraries hold only one volume.

Full list of IIIF Gutenberg Bibles:

• France, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares, VELINS-67
• France, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares, VELINS-68
• France, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares, VELINS-69
• France, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares, VELINS-70
• France, Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Inc 1-1
• France, Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Inc 1-2
• France, Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque de l’Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer, Inc. 7-1
• Germany, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 2° Inc 1511
• Germany, Göttingen, SUB Göttingen, [Vol. 1]
• Germany, Göttingen, SUB Göttingen, [Vol. 2]
• Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB-Ink B-408, Vol. 1
• Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB-Ink B-408, Vol. 2
• Japan, Tokyo, Keio University Library, Incunabula Collection 036
• Spain, Seville, Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla, Inc. 31
• UK, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Inc.1
• UK, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Inc.2
• UK, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Inc.1.A.1.1[3761.1-2]
• UK, London, British Library, G.12226, Vol. 1
• UK, London, British Library, G.12226, Vol. 2
• UK, London, British Library, Digital Store C.9.d.3.
• UK, Manchester, John Rylands Library, 3069, Vol. 1
• UK, Manchester, John Rylands Library, 3069, Vol. 2
• UK, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch. B b.10
• UK, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch. B b.11
• USA, Austin TX, Harry Ransom Center, Incun 1454 B5
• USA, Cambridge MA, Houghton Library, Biblia Latina, Vol. 1 (selected images)
• USA, Cambridge MA, Houghton Library, Biblia Latina, Vol. 2 (selected images)
• USA, New Haven CT, Beinecke Library, ZZi 56, Vol. 1
• USA, New Haven CT, Beinecke Library, ZZi 56, Vol. 2
• USA, Princeton NJ, Scheide Library, 48.1, Vol. 1
• USA, Princeton NJ, Scheide Library, 48.1, Vol. 2
• USA, Washington DC, Library of Congress, BS75 1454
• Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Stamp.Barb.AAA.IV.16
• Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Stamp.Barb.AAA.IV.17

Some digital facsimiles of the Gutenberg bible are not published as IIIF objects, and are not included here.

IIIF Collection

The digitized Gutenberg Bibles are also available as a IIIF Collection.