Text detail from a Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455.
Greek New Testament, late 10th or early 11th century.
On this Torah scroll, which is hundreds of years old, a passage from the book of Exodus is visible.
German translation of Old Testament, 1560.
Ninth-century Coptic Psalter (book of Psalms).
Handwritten and illuminated Saint John’s Bible, 2011.
Pocket-size Latin New Testament circa 1300.
Codex Climaci Rescriptus written in Aramaic in the sixth century, then overwritten in Syriac in the late ninth or early 10th century.
Annotated Bible printed in Strasbourg, France, in 1481.
Book of hours and Psalter (book of Psalms) from the 1300s.
The Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, from 1530, translated into English by William Tyndale.
Ninth-century fragments of the Gospel of John.
Greek New Testament from 1519, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, second edition.
Parchment Ashkenazi Torah scroll, late 13th century.
Eliot “Indian Bible” translated into Wampanoag, 1663, first complete Bible printed in U.S.
Illuminated Morris-Cockerell Latin manuscript from 1225.
Seville Bible in Hebrew, 1468.
Ethiopian Psalter from the 18th or 19th century.
Plantin Polyglot Bible showing Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin from Antwerp, Belgium, circa 1570.
Latin New Testament circa 1300.