Incunabula

Word INCUNABULA
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Definitions and meanings of "Incunabula"

What do we mean by incunabula?

A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.

(chiefly in the plural) The cradle, birthplace or origin of something.

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The word "incunabula" in example sentences

The primitive woodcuts in incunabula are now almost too highly appreciated. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Sallenave was an avid collector of butterflies, as well as Old Master prints and rare books, particularly those printed before 1501, so-called incunabula. ❋ Noah Charney (2007)

Red Witch miscellaneous notes on Wiccan 'incunabula': curious and interesting stories from newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books, press photos and postcards and other items relating to influential witches and the infancy of the modern witchcraft movement. ❋ Christopher (2007)

So maybe at the outset of this 'incunabula' period, you are doing exactly what needs be done. ❋ Mark (2005)

These are generally rare books, such as incunabula and the higher class English literature of the seventeenth century, and are to be found in the libraries of wealthy collectors who are also learned men. ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

These truly remarkable collections include a notable collection of rare atlases; a good cross-section of 'incunabula' (i.e. early books printed in Europe pre-1501); an important collection of early printed Bibles; key English and European texts from the Protestant Reformation; a substantial collection of scarce political tracts from the Civil War; rare books on natural history, geography, and so on, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. A kind friar has called it to my attention that three incunabula containing Dominican liturgical materials are now available in digital form on the web. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He had repaired all types of books, from Bibles to incunabula with pages on the point of turning to dust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have published a few articles on untranslatable incunabula without bothering to offer any solutions, a few reviews of what is current in glyptology, cryptology, and cryptanalysis. ❋ Kane X. Faucher (2010)

This lovely tome brings our grand totals for incunabula to two, and is now the oldest printed book in our collection. ❋ Lynne M Thomas (2009)

There is a mathematical structure in the natural world that can be revealed or obscured by arranging Curiositez de la Mer des Indes, with its rich illustrations of the most bizarre creatures to swim the seas, in proximity to Elementa Geometriae, and a curiosity in the development of ideas discovered by keeping his incunabula together. ❋ Young Geoffrion (2009)

My premise is that the development and acceptance of e-books today parallels incunabula in the 15th century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The collection, which includes more than 500,000 pages of digitized books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts, contributes to the understanding of the global, social-history, and public-policy implications of disease and offers important historical perspectives on the science and the public policy of epidemiology today. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The term, first used in the mid-17th century, comes from the Latin incunabula for "swaddling clothes," which implied that the book in question was printed when printing was in its infancy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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