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Incunabula Database -- The Bancroft Library
The Incunabula Collection at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. ... Page from Euclid's Elementa Geometriae To enlarge click on the image: The Incunabula ...
Incunabulum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An incunabulum is a book , single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe . These are very rare and valuable items.
incunabula - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Definitions of incunabula at Dictionary.com. ... 1. extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.

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Incunabula (Latin, “cradle,” “origin”), in bibliography, collective term denoting books printed before the year 1501. The study of incunabula is important as a source of information regarding the early development of the art of typography, and also because priceless items of incunabula include the first printed versions of many classical, medieval, and Renaissance works. Among the approximately 35,000 existing collections of incunabula are volumes published by the German printer Johannes Gutenberg and the English printer William Caxton.

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