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incunabula
[ in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing- ]
plural noun
- extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.
- the earliest stages or first traces of anything.
incunabula
/ ˌɪnkjʊˈnæbjʊlə /
plural noun
- any book printed before 1501
- the infancy or earliest stages of something; beginnings
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Derived Forms
- ˌincuˈnabular, adjective
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Other Words From
- incu·nabu·lar adjective
- postin·cu·nabu·la adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incunabula1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incunabula1
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Example Sentences
The term Incunabula is now applied to all books printed before the year 1500.
It contained especially choice editions of the classics, and also many incunabula.
Beughem's Incunabula Typographica, 1688, 12mo., is both jejune and grossly erroneous.
By the term 'early-printed books' the bookseller generally means fifteenth-century works, or incunabula as they are now called.
One is the original editions of famous Elizabethan and early Stuart authors, the other, the more estimable incunabula.
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