The Library of Congress treats a 42-line Bible as a public exhibition object
The Library of Congress has exhibited Gutenberg Bible material in its public Bibles exhibitions. This Fact stores that American public-access carrier, not a 1455 Washington press. 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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The Library of Congress has exhibited Gutenberg Bible material in its public Bibles exhibitions. This Fact stores that American public-access carrier, not a 1455 Washington press.
Context
Three national libraries holding copies is not three inventions. Split BL, LOC, BnF so access geography is visible.
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
Transatlantic access path. High confidence on public exhibition; the year is a public-exhibition century date, not a 1455 colophon.
An exhibit label is not a type punch.
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 Bible. LOC exhibition is a later republic’s knowledge act.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe Library of Congress treats a 42-line Bible as a public exhibition object
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 1930 · verified
A U.S. national-library exhibition copy increased public inspectability of the 1450s edition outside Europe.
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.Library of Congress — Bibles exhibitionLibrary of Congress · High credibility · verified
- 2.Library of CongressLibrary of Congress · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
The LOC Bibles exhibition page and the Library of Congress home independently present Bibles including Gutenberg as public objects.
Established: LOC public Gutenberg Bible exhibition/holding. Not established: that Gutenberg printed in America.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJohannes Gutenberg
- contributed toFactThe Library of Congress treats a 42-line Bible as a public exhibition object
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). The Library of Congress treats a 42-line Bible as a public exhibition object. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gut-loc-bible
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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