1454

I think we have our title for the Literary Magazine. That title is 1454, as in the year Johannes Gutenberg first mass printed the Bible on his printing press. Here is some history on the man. He was born in Mainz Germany around 1398 of noble blood. He was originally named Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden (his mother's maiden name was Gutenberg). He learned ze trade of ze goldsmith. Around 1428 poor Johannes and his family were exiled from Mainz for cavorting with local craftsworking rebels . . . who also led a revolution . . . which they were in. They moved to Strassburg. He is known best for the Gutenberg Bible! (of which, Zeb, St. Paul's has an original copy) Apparently Gutey couldn't see too well in his last months. That's because he was going blind (too much fine print?). He printed the bible first on his little hand press in 1440. This is technically the date, or so says the internet. We can choose either 1440 or 1454 and possibly even 1450 but I don't like the sound of that. 1454's got a ring to it. I'm glad we thought of it off hand, like not because we tried.