Metermorphosen

Die Gutenberg Serviette presents in a six-colour-print the first page of the famous Gutenberg bible on a paper napkin. It is the first passage of the bible talking about food - it is a perfect serviette for your meals at home.
20 napkins in lunch format in one pack.
With an introduction in English and German language.

Probably the most famous and at once the most beautiful printed Bible in the world comes from Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz (ca. 1400 - 1468). It is the first, comprehensive work of Western society to appear in print in Latin. It contains almost 1,300 pages and is known as the Gutenberg Bible. With the invention of printing Gutenberg unleashed a technical revolution, after which books from the monasteries gradually reached all sections of society. We still benefit today from the technical innovation of the "Man of the Millennium". Gutenberg completed the celebrated book in the middle of the 15th century in Mainz. The even, black columns of text were printed in lead typesetting with movable type. The red upstrokes and printed characters, like the artistic initials and illuminations, were then applied individually by hand in every single copy. The serviette presented here is a six-colour reproduction of the first page of the history of the Creation. The final passage of the magnificently illuminated page describes the sixth day of the Creation, on which God created man and dedicates to him fruits and animals as a future source of nourishment. This original reproduction of the Biblical quotation is especially suitable as a useful accessory for your meals. The central passage from the last third of the second column of text begins with the words "Et creavit Deus..." and reads as follows in the translation:
"And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them: And God said unto them‚ be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good."

ISBN: 978-3-934657-42-7