Cambridge Digital Library publishes a public page-turning Gutenberg Bible
Dated 1 January 2015: Cambridge Digital Library publishes a public page-turning Gutenberg Bible. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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Context
Digital facsimiles can freeze one copy’s damage and can open the book. Both are true. BL exhibition is a different city.
Johannes Gutenberg is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Digital-access path. High confidence on the public viewer.
A viewer is not Helmasperger. The lawsuit is another URL.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Johannes Gutenberg
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.1 · verified
Complex: his edition. Cambridge’s digital library is the public carrier dated here.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactCambridge Digital Library publishes a public page-turning Gutenberg Bible
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 2015 · verified
A complete public digital surrogate let readers turn 42-line pages without a rare-book appointment.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Cambridge Digital Library — Gutenberg BibleCambridge University Library · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Johannes GutenbergEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Cambridge Digital Library published a public digital Gutenberg Bible with page-level access.
The CUDL viewer is the official digital object. Britannica independently frames the 42-line Bible as Gutenberg’s book.
Established: CUDL public Gutenberg Bible scan. Not established: that pixels are the 1455 ink.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJohannes Gutenberg
- contributed toFactCambridge Digital Library publishes a public page-turning Gutenberg Bible
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Cambridge Digital Library publishes a public page-turning Gutenberg Bible. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gut-cambridge-cudl
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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