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Gutenberg, man of the millennium: from a secret enterprise to the first media revolution

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    Gutenberg

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Gutenberg and his city : Mainz history in the 15th century / Wolfgang Dobras -- Well-known stranger -- Johannes Gutenberg / Sabina Wagner -- Script in practical use -- reading and writing in the late Middle Ages / Isa Fleischmann-Heck -- Gutenberg's inventions -- the technical aspects of printing with multiple letters on the letterpress printing machine / Eva-Maria Hanebutt-Benz -- First printer : Johannes Gutenberg / Cornelia Schneider -- From Mainz to the world : book printing and the book trade in the Incunabula Period / Ursula Rautenberg -- Mainz tapestries from the time of Gutenberg / Winfried Willhelmy.

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    Mainz: City of Mainz, 2000

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    "Abridged version of the catalogue of the exhibition staged by the City of Mainz on the occasion of the sixth centenary of the birth of Johannes Gutenberg, April 14-October 3, 2000." - Title page.

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