The Gutenberg Bible was the first Bible and one of the first books to be mass-printed with movable type machines in the 1450’s.
The printing machine was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, who allowed books to be mass-produced, as opposed to earlier books which were copied by hand and more labour-intensive to make.
The Gutenberg Bible was a later edition of the Latin Vulgate, a Latin translation first written by Jerome around 380 AD. The pages have 42 lines each and roughly 160-180 copies were printed, according to Pope Pius II. a quarter of the copies were printed on vellum, while the remainder were printed on paper. Unfortunately, only 49 copies with at least substantial portions intact have survived till today.
In 1978, one copy was sold to the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, a large library in Stuttgart, Germany for 2.2 million USD. Today, the price of a complete copy is estimated at between 25 million to 35 million USD.
References:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible