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Definition of Incunable
1. Noun. A very early printed book, specifically one printed before 1501; an incunabulum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incunable
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incunable
Literary usage of Incunable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"Giammaria Biemmi, a priest of Brescia, pretended to have discovered a Latin
incunable written by an unknown author from Antivari (Historia ..."
2. Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography edited by Annie (Dennis) Bursch, Frederick C. Bursch (1904)
"In Italy, which up to the incunable time almost monopolized the market, ...
In England we have (only for the incunable period) Sotheby's The Typography of ..."
3. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1921)
"... circa 1483-4) exhumed by Sudhoff in an incunable in the University Library at
Leipzig and the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow,1 was plagiarized in the ..."
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