Gutenberg’s use of the printing press generally marked the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the Renaissance. Books and the printed word would soon become available to everyone not like before when mostly the wealthy, royalty and the Church could afford books.
At the same time Gutenberg was printing the Bible, in Mainz, Germany, a monk began handwriting the Bible. It took him 18 months to handwrite one Bible. Gutenberg was able to print about 180 copies in the same amount of time.
Bonus trivia: books printed before 1500 are called incunables or incunabulae. A book printed before 1500 is an incunabulum.
“Gutenberg’s use of the printing press generally marked the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the Renaissance.”
I don’t think so. The usual achievement ascribed as the beginning of the Renaissance was Ghiberti’s bronze doors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Ghiberti Also, the Renaissance was very much a part of the Middle Ages, it was it’s closing era and a culmination of several centuries of development in arts, education, science, exploration, and so on.