Updating the story of Genesis with contemporary science.

While the story of Genesis is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis of creation given the available information, we have learned much since the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press. The printing press, for me, is the beginning of contemporary science as it was the broad distribution of ideas that led to a true evolution of shared thinking. This Addendum to the Gutenberg Bible is founded in the tradition of story telling and all the ways language playfully re/considers the world around us

Addendum x 3, now at the Morgan Library!

On February 9, 2016, I visited John McQuillen of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library.   When I left NYPL, Kyle told me to tell the Morgan that Lenox brought the first Gutenberg to the New World.  Upon receiving the news, John shrugged his shoulders and said simply:  we have three.  Below is the ex-libris or bookplate on…

Returning to NYPL, this time to addend!

On February 5, 2016, I donated Addendum, Edition 36 to the New York Public Library. But two years before (February 12, 2014), in preparation for crafting what was to become my Addendum, I visited Kyle Triplett of NYPL Rare Books Division to research the dimensions, text block, ink, and paper of the NYPL’s Gutenberg Bible. Frankly, I was amazed I…

British Library received Edition 31 & 32

The British Library is on Euston, so on the morning of August 13, I caught the 168 bus down from Val Oriens charming garden flat. I had a 20 minute appointment with Phil Hatfield of the British library.   He works in the US, Caribbean and Canadian collections department. One can begin to see how my nationality begins to structure where my…

Austrian National library accepts Edition 2; Bibliotheque national de France rejects Edition 17 & 18!

So,  This is old news from this spring but I haven’t formally posted it-  BnF rejected both Addendum from their collection, with the following email: Madame L’on m’a bien transmis les deux dossiers objet de votre don . Ainsi que je le fais habituellement , je les ai transmis aux deux départements concernés qui les ont refusés et me les…

Lambeth Palace likely to accept Addendum, Edition 28

  So, I’m terribly behind in reporting, but  on Wednesday morning, August 5th, I walked to Lambeth Palace. Luckily the tube strike didn’t complicate my plans.      I met with the endearing Naomi Percival and Hugh Cahill.    Their library was founded as a “public library” but the definition then was perhaps different. Its collections began by the archbishops donating…