Gutenberg Bible

A massive medieval manuscript with gilt-edged pages and richly decorated initials, its vellum folios secured between heavy wooden boards wrapped in faded leather. The Bible’s presence radiates historical weight—its illuminated pages catching the laboratory’s overhead lights as Scarlioni brandishes it toward Kerensky, the priceless artifact’s market value making it the ultimate bargaining chip. The object’s physicality contrasts sharply with the lab’s metallic surfaces, its fragile parchment underscoring the violence of liquidating cultural heritage for temporal research.