Sibyllenbuch fragment
Earliest known European partial book leaf, printed using movable type / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sibyllenbuch fragment is a partial book leaf which may be the earliest surviving remnant of any European book that was printed using movable type. The Sibyllenbuch, or Book of the Sibyls, was a medieval poem which held prophecies concerning the fate of the Holy Roman Empire.
The British Libraryās on-line Incunabula Short Title Catalogue dates the Sibyllenbuch fragment to "about 1452ā53", making it older than any other example of European movable-type printing, including the c. 1454 Gutenberg Bible.[1] However, various movable-type systems were developed as early as the eleventh century in the history of typography in East Asia.