The Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz, the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, is one of the most important places for collecting and preserving Gutenberg’s invention as well as for communicating the history of books, printing and writing. Its unique collection comprises around 500,000 objects from the fields of books, writing and the art of printing and shows their development in different cultures. Among the museum’s greatest treasures are two Gutenberg Bibles, the digital copies of which were created in close cooperation with Mainz University Library. They are now freely accessible online in Gutenberg Capture before being made available on other portals.
Gutenberg Capture is the online portal of the University Library for the digital indexing and provision of source material for science. Here you will find high-quality digitized and indexed data that can be used freely for research purposes.
For the first time, researchers and interested parties can browse through the Gutenberg-Bibles, thanks to the OCR application specially developed for incunabula by the department of book studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Bibles can be searched for keywords and names.