Incunable - Wikipedia
An incunable or incunabulum (pl.: incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. [1] Incunabula were produced before the printing press became widespread on the continent and are distinct from manuscripts , which are documents written ...
Incunabula | Early Printing & Book History | Britannica
Incunabula, books printed during the earliest period of typography—i.e., from the invention of the art of typographic printing in Europe in the 1450s to the end of the 15th century (i.e., January 1501).
Chapter 1: What are Incunabula? | Incunabula - 国立国会図書館
Incunabula is the plural of the Latin word incunabulum, a cradle. Evolving from its original meaning, incunabulum came to mean "place of birth" or "beginning." In the world of books, the word incunabula refers to books that were printed using metal type up to the year 1500.
Incunabula - Early Printed Books - Library Guides at UChicago
2024年6月4日 · The word "incunabula" is Latin, a neuter plural meaning "swaddling clothes" or "cradle." In book history, it is used to refer to all books printed with metal type from the beginning of Gutenberg's movable type printing press, around 1455, to the end of 1500.
An Introduction to Incunabula - historicpages.com
"Incunabula" is a generic term coined by English book collectors in the seventeenth century to describe the first printed books of the fifteenth century. It is a more elegant replacement for what had previously been called "fifteeners", and is formed of two Latin words meaning literally "in the cradle" or "in swaddling clothes".
Incunabula Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
"Incunabulum" first appeared in English in the 19th century, referring retroactively to those books produced in the first decades of printing press technology - specifically those printed before …
Incunabula: Ancestors of the Printed Book
2024年11月19日 · Though the invention of the printing press caused a revolution, it took decades to kickstart it into high gear. It started with incunabula, books printed during the first 50 years of the printing press, between 1450 and 1501.
Incunable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2013年2月19日 · An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside (such as the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474) that was printed—not handwritten—before the year 1501 in Europe.
Hebrew incunabula - Wikipedia
The Hebrew incunabula are a group of Hebrew books, papmphlets or broadside printed before the year 1501. Only about 100 incunabula are determined to have been definitively printed before 1500. There are eight of which either no copy is known, or the time and place of publication can not be definitely determined.
Pre-1800 Imprints, British & American: A Finding Guide: Incunabula
2023年7月7日 · Incunabula is "the collective term for books dating from the earliest (pre-1500) phase of the history of printing. Literally, it means ‘swaddling-clothes’, and is thus suggestive of the ‘infancy’ of the art of printing."