35 square metres.

(That’s close to 400 square feet for the colonial cousins. Very bigly, as they say…)

So here you have the largest page of a Gutenberg bible in the world, suspended at the back end narthex of the cathedral in Mainz, the narthex being – in the olden days – where the unbaptised faithful would be restricted to.

I suppose the unbaptised unfaithful – like me – would have been even further back…

Anyway, someone had this really good idea, they created the printing block from 13 wooden sections, applied the ink and then the paper

Covered it with sheets of ply and then got hold of a mobile printing press i.e. a car and trashed backwards and forwards until they thought it was cooked. Or imprinted.

All good stuff and zip into St Martin’s if you happen to be in town

Guest photog for the last 2 pix: SWR

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