My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

我的追寻古腾堡——那本解开家族谜团的珍稀书籍

Lives Less Ordinary

社会与文化

2025-03-24

40 分钟
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Michael Visontay thought he knew everything about his family’s past, but there was one shadowy character he was aching to know more about: his grandfather’s second wife, Olga. As Michael went through old papers, he uncovered a trail to the world’s most coveted book, the Gutenberg Bible – a rare antique printed in the 1450s – and the scandalous scheme to break it up. Presenter: Asya Fouks Producer: Maryam Maruf Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784
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  • Michael, I've heard that you're a little bit of a hoarder.

  • What sorts of things do you like to collect?

  • Well, I collect a lot of strange things.

  • Some of them are football paraphernalia, so I've collected relics from World Cups.

  • I do collect also and keep a lot of family documents that other people wouldn't.

  • So I have from my father, records of my parents wedding, rental car receipt.

  • Rental car receipts, the rental car receipt.

  • The inventory of furniture.

  • Hey, I'm Masjia Fuchs and on this episode of Lives Less Ordinary, I'm talking.

  • To Michael Vasante, a writer,

  • journalist and self confessed hoarder of family documents and other ephemera,

  • where they went for their.

  • Honeymoon, the diaries of what they did on their cruises.

  • So I like to hold onto things in history.

  • There is one artifact that Michael will likely never own but has spent the last five years obsessively chasing.

  • The Gutenberg Bible,

  • the book that led to the Reformation in Europe and one of the most precious books in the world.

  • In his pursuit, Michael has gotten tantalizingly close to some of its pages.

  • So I've held several in my hands and have many in front of me pages.