The 500 Year Journey
On October 15, 2019, Pacific Union College celebrated the “birthday” of this Latin Vulgate Bible. The book in question is a small Latin Bible published in Venice on 15 October 1519, by a Florentine named Luce Antonius de Giunta. Based on the date of publication, the Bible is considered a post-incunable.
The PUC Archives and Special Collections was pleased to turn students’ attention to the Bible on its 500th birthday.
Film credit: Stefaan Dick and Tim Delatorre.
Supervised by the Special Collections Librarian, students with clean, dry hands were encouraged to hold the Bible and experience the historic object for themselves.
I show library student worker Isabel McMillan (at left) a set of woodcuts.
Credit for the Bible photography belongs to the Pacific Union College Public Relations Department. All other photos were taken by Sara Kakazu or myself.
