Meaning incunabula
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incunabulaany book or books printed before 1501
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incunabulaA book printed, with moveable type, during the earliest period of printing. Commonly refers to books published before the year 1501.
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incunabulaBooks printed between Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type and 1500, coined from the Latin word cunae, meaning “cradle”.
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incunabula"swaddling clothes," also, figuratively, "childhood, beginnings, place where a thing had its earliest development," 1824, from Latin incunabula (neuter plural) "a cradle; a bi [..]
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incunabulabooks printed before 1501
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incunabulaBooks printed before 1501; the word is derived from the Latin for swaddling clothes and is used to indicate that these books are the work of a technology still in its infancy (Murray, p 28).
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incunabulaBooks, pamphlets, calendars, and indulgences printed, not handwritten, before 1501 in Europe. The date 1501 holds not distinct significance other than being a convenient round figure directly after Jo [..]
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incunabulaPronounced, and often Anglicized as, incunable. Books printed on presses before the year 1501 are called incunabula, which comes from a word meaning "cradle" or "birthplace" in Latin.
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incunabulaswddling clothes / infancy, birthplace / source, origin.
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incunabulaBooks printed before 1501.
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