Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) revolutionized the method of book production with movable metal letters. Only seven years after the world famous Gutenberg Bible, his master student Peter Schöffer created his own. And now this comes under the hammer: On November 25, Ketterer art in Hamburg offers the work in the auction valuable books. The estimated price is one million euros, the auction house announced on Thursday.
"The Biblia latina by Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer, the direct successors of Johannes Gutenberg, is an absolute masterpiece that was printed during the lifetime of the inventor of the printing press," it said. Schöffer created them with his own, more contemporary letters.
And this extremely rare copy, printed entirely on parchment, is certainly in great demand in collectors' circles. In terms of craftsmanship, the Bible is to be seen directly on the same level as the Gutenberg Bible.
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