{"id":10,"date":"2011-09-15T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccspecialcollections.wordpress.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:22","slug":"a-noble-fragment-donated-to-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/09\/15\/a-noble-fragment-donated-to-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Noble Fragment&#8221; donated to CC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/library\/SpecialCollections\/leafrecto.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12 alignleft\" title=\"CCleaf2detail\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/09\/ccleaf2detail.jpg\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/library\/SpecialCollections\/leafverso.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11 alignleft\" title=\"CCleaf1detail\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/09\/ccleaf1detail.jpg\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the spring of 2005, Carky Rubens (CC class of 1952) and his family donated a single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible to Colorado College: <em>A Noble Fragment: Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455<\/em>. With a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921.<\/p>\n<p>The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed with movable type in the western world. In the mid-15th century, Johann Gutenberg printed about 180 copies in Mainz, Germany. 48 copies have survived and are preserved in libraries. In the early 20th century, a bookdealer bought a damaged copy of the Gutenberg Bible, dismantled it, and sold the leaves individually as &#8220;noble fragments.&#8221; CC&#8217;s leaf contains chapters VIII-X of Kings III. (In modern bibles, Kings I-IV are Samuel I-II and Kings I-II.) For a good overview of Gutenberg and movable type, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/medieval\/gutenberg.shtml\">Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2005, Carky Rubens (CC class of 1952) and his family donated a single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible to Colorado College: A Noble Fragment: Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455. With a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. The Gutenberg Bible is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}