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Definition of Incunabula
1. incunabulum [n] - See also: incunabulum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incunabula
Literary usage of Incunabula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Thus the Bibliothèque d'Angers owes its first collection to Alain de la Rue about
1376; it now contains 72483 vols., 134 incunabula and 2039 MSS. ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"THE NEED OF A SCIENTIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF incunabula THE principal article in the
June number of the Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, by R. Galle, ..."
3. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America (1919)
"The eight incunabula belonging to Dr. Lewis Stephen Pilcher, of Brooklyn, constitute
a section of minor importance in his library, of which he has printed ..."
4. How to Collect Books by J. Herbert ( Slater (1905)
"CHAPTER VI incunabula AND THE EARLY PRINTERS incunabula— ... incunabula, a word
derived from the Latin ..."
5. How to Collect Books by John Herbert Slater (1905)
"CHAPTER VI incunabula AND THE EARLY PRINTERS incunabula— ... incunabula, a word
derived from the Latin ..."
6. Annals of Medical History by Francis Randolph Packard (1920)
"A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE incunabula IN THE LIBRARY OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
OF PHILADELPHIA The following is a carefully prepared list of the ..."
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