Foreword / Paul Saenger and Kimberly Van Kampen -- Introduction / Anthony Kenny -- The layout of the Bible gloss in manuscript and early print / J.P. Gumbert -- An extraordinary achievement: the Glossa ordinaria in print / Karlfried Froehlich -- Biblical blockbooks / Nigel F. Palmer -- The impact of the early printed page on the reading of the Bible / Paul Saenger -- The changing shape of the Vulgate Bible in the fifteenth-century printing shops / Paul Needham -- Hebrew printing of the Bible in the XVth century / Adrian K. Offenberg -- Biblical books and the circulation of the Psalms in late-medieval England / Kimberly Van Kampen -- The Bible, printing and the educational goals of humanists / Guy Bedoulle -- The printing press in Alcalá de Henares: the Complutensian polyglot Bible / Julián Martín Abad -- The problem of manuscript basis for the earliest printed editions of the Greek New testament / Michael Welte -- 'The book thus put in every vulgar hand': impressions of readers in early English printed Bibles / William H. Sherman -- The re-evaluation of the patristic exegetical tradition in the sixteenth century / David Steinmetz.