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The rare books -- the Gutenberg Bible, the Mentelin Bible, the 36-Line Bible and the 1462 Bible -- are owned by Scheide, who houses the collection in the Scheide Library at Firestone. He is only the third private collector to own all four Bibles, following King George III and the second Earl Spencer, the great-great-great-grandfather of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
A passionate bibliophile and musicologist, Scheide has built on a remarkable book collection begun after the Civil War by his grandfather and continued by his father. He acquired the collection's most recent Bible, the Mentelin, last year. The Scheide Library is the only collection in the United States, and one of only six in the world, to include all four of these Bibles. The other owners are public libraries in Europe.
June 3, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 27
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Contents
Commencement
•Commencement ceremony
set
•Selection as
valedictorian a family affair for the
Pierces
•Love of languages
inspires salutatorian
Page one
•Former Secretary of
State Baker donates papers to
Princeton
•World's first four
printed Bibles part of a special one-day display
Inside
•Marion Levy Jr.,
Princeton scholar of modernization, dies at age
83
•Four selected for
Graduate Mentoring Awards
•Wireless course a hit
with students and NSF
•Student helps
transform tin shack into school
•Tuition grant
increased
•Swim season is
here
Sections
•People
briefs
•People spotlight,
obituaries
•By the
numbers
•Calendar
of events
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