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Meanings of incunabula in English
Book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
Synonyms
Examples for "incunable"
Examples for "incunable"
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There are glass-topped homes for incunables.
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He wanted to ask her where her head was at, that all she could think about was some worm-eaten incunabulum.
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So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener.
Usage of incunabula in English
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His collection of incunabula is being shown at the National Arts Club now.
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There's a rising market for rare books, manuscripts, and incunabula-
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No remains have been preserved of these -incunabula- of the Roman epos and drama.
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Tens of thousands of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula in the Biblioteca Nazionale were buried under muck.
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The Biblioteca Queriniana contains early MSS., a 14th-century MS. of Dante, &c., and some rare incunabula.
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His works were very popular, particularly the gigantic "Continens," one of the bulkiest of incunabula.
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For the incunabula printed with Greek characters Legrand's 'Bibliographie hellénique,' which appeared in two octavo volumes in 1885, is useful.
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Its collection consists of about 1.6 million volumes, including some 75,000 manuscripts and 8,300 incunabula (printed books from the second half of the fifteenth century).
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Incunabula are just very early printed books.
Frequent collocations
Translations for incunabula
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Incunabula through the time