00:00A priceless Bible, printed by the famed German artisan and inventor of the printing press,
00:06Johannes Gutenberg, is on display at the National Museum in Warsaw.
00:10The invention of movable type by Gutenberg in the 15th century enabled the faster production
00:15of books and thus eased the exchange of information, access to knowledge, and new ideas.
00:20It is one of the first copies of his Bible printed by Johannes Gutenberg,
00:25because there are errors in it.
00:28On one of the pages, there is an error on the side of the paper,
00:31which fell out during the printing process.
00:36The priceless work is over 570 years old.
00:40It is one of only a few such Bibles in the world, and the only one in Poland.
00:46In addition to the fact that it is complete,
00:50it is also almost complete when it comes to the card.
00:54The only thing missing is the last card in the second volume,
00:57which is the end of the Apocalypse.
01:00Finally, it has the original 15th-century cover.
01:03It was taken to Canada, where it was deposited in a bank.
01:06It was waiting together with other objects of Polish culture and history,
01:10such as, for example, the manuscript of the Chronicle of Galla Anonima,
01:14or the royal regalia, until the late 1950s,
01:17when it was sent to Poland from Poland.
01:20It is one of the few Bibles in the world,
01:23and it is one of the few Bibles in the world,
01:26and it is one of the few Bibles in the world,
01:29until the late 1950s, when it was sent back to Poland.
01:34Fate, however, was not always kind to the ancient book.
01:37In the face of the threat of war,
01:40the Bible was taken to Canada for preservation
01:43through Warsaw, Paris, and Great Britain.
01:50It shows the phenomenon of medieval literature,
01:53the culture of the book.
01:56It can be seen on many objects on the path,
01:59the representations of people who read.
02:02While preparing this path, I was amazed
02:05how common is the representation of the book
02:08in the visual culture of the late Middle Ages.
02:11On the one hand, they are an attribute of the saints,
02:14but on the other, they are just a simple requisite,
02:17just a book to read.
02:21The recovery of these precious objects by Poland
02:24was accompanied by a show
02:27that began in Warsaw on February 7, 1959.
02:30Opening our show on the same day,
02:33we wanted to refer to the re-discovery of the Bible.
02:43For the duration of the display,
02:46the Gutenberg Bible is accompanied by a unique tour path
02:49where art lovers can learn about the medieval culture of writing.
