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Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty (around 1230), but was not
widely used: one reason being the enormous Chinese character set. Around 1450, in what is
commonly regarded as an independent invention, Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type in
Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. This
invention gradually made books less expensive to produce, and more widely available.
A 15th century incunabulum. Notice the blind-tooled cover, corner
bosses and clasps.
Early printed books, single sheets and images which were created
before the year 1501 in Europe are known as incunabula. A man born in
1453, the year of the fall of Constantinople, could look back from his
fiftieth year on a lifetime in which about eight million books had been
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