Named for Johann Gutenberg, the Gutenberg Bible is the first printing-press Bible--all prior Bibles had been made by handwriting copies or by means of stamping them from hand-carved wooden blocks.
The Gutenberg Bible is believed to have first been printed in 1454, and was based on the Latin Vulgate Bible; a translation of the Bible into Latin in the late 4th Century or early 5th Century by Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymous (Saint Jerome) of the Roman province of Dalmatia.
It is believed less than 200 copies of the Gutenberg bible were printed, with only twenty-one believed to still be in existence.
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