Delivering Freedom into Your Hands: 1482 French Bible Story

  • Just up the Mississippi River from St. Bernard Parish, awaiting anyone who wishes to view it, is a Bible printed in 1482, whose words today are exactly as they were more than 500 years ago and even more easily accessible now thanks to donor Tom Taylor and Hill Memorial Library’s engaging stewardship. Dr. John Miles presents an example of moveable type, dipped in ink, a technology that has born faithful witness to our words for centuries. Beat that Microsoft and Apple! Photos by Chris O’Connor
    Just up the Mississippi River from St. Bernard Parish, awaiting anyone who wishes to view it, is a Bible printed in 1482, whose words today are exactly as they were more than 500 years ago and even more easily accessible now thanks to donor Tom Taylor and Hill Memorial Library’s engaging stewardship. Dr. John Miles presents an example of moveable type, dipped in ink, a technology that has born faithful witness to our words for centuries. Beat that Microsoft and Apple! Photos by Chris O’Connor
  • Hill Memorial Library is located at 95 Field House Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70803
    Hill Memorial Library is located at 95 Field House Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70803
  • A place where everybody knows your name. For those who take the time to experience the collection of rare books at Hill Memorial Library, the knowledge and enthusiasm of the curators and staff is an added bonus. In response to a request to view the recently added 1482 French Bible, Dr. Christina Cloud (right) offered seven related items to help tell this specific bible’s story. Dr. John Miles (left) pointed out, for the readers of this paper, that Hill archives past editions of many Louisiana newspapers.
    A place where everybody knows your name. For those who take the time to experience the collection of rare books at Hill Memorial Library, the knowledge and enthusiasm of the curators and staff is an added bonus. In response to a request to view the recently added 1482 French Bible, Dr. Christina Cloud (right) offered seven related items to help tell this specific bible’s story. Dr. John Miles (left) pointed out, for the readers of this paper, that Hill archives past editions of many Louisiana newspapers.
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  • Dr. John Miles reviews a page from Johann Amerbach’s 1482 publication of the Bible, one of only three existing in the world today. A 1482 French Bible page including John 1:1 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ('In pricipo erat verbum...' KJV Trans. original Latin)
    Dr. John Miles reviews a page from Johann Amerbach’s 1482 publication of the Bible, one of only three existing in the world today. A 1482 French Bible page including John 1:1 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ('In pricipo erat verbum...' KJV Trans. original Latin)
    Johann Amerbach was a technology entrepreneur, a man who did not let national boundaries define his ambitions. He was born in Germany, educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, France and had businesses from Basel, Switzerland to Lyon, France. Though Amerbach was a communications visionary, he would never have imagined that his name would be committed forever to history in the pages of th...

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