The Gutenberg Bible was being printed from 1454 on in Mainz, Germany.
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“The Gutenberg Bible was being printed from 1454 on in Mainz, Germany.”
And yet people hand copied Bibles until. . . well, today. People in the last few centuries did it whe they had little money or as an act of devotion. The Brethren - a modern day cult - copies NTs by hand, for instance.