GUTHENBERG EXHIBITION
CELEBRATION OF CENTENARY. Strassburg is to stage a Guthenberg Exhibition in 1940 to commemorate the fifth centenary of the invention of printing. It was in Strassburg that Guthenberg set up his first printing press,-and the-fact is referred to in the famous Wimpfeling document, in which it is written: “In the year 1440, in the reign of Frederick HI, an almost divine benefaction was accorded to the universe by John Guthenberg, inventor of a new means of writing. He was, the first to discover the art of printing in the town of Strassburg, going later to Mainz.” 4
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 9
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99GUTHENBERG EXHIBITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 9
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