Meaning of "incunable" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF INCUNABLE

incunable  [ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCUNABLE

Incunable is a noun.

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WHAT DOES INCUNABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Incunable

An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum, is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed—not handwritten—before the year 1501 in Europe. "Incunable" is the anglicised singular form of "incunabula", Latin for "swaddling clothes" or "cradle", which can refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything." A former term for "incunable" is "fifteener", referring to the 15th century. The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae, which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, "the first infancy of printing", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention. The term came to denote the printed books themselves in the late 17th century. John Evelyn, in moving the Arundel Manuscripts to the Royal Society in August 1678, remarked of the printed books among the manuscripts "The printed books, being of the oldest impressions, are not the less valuable ; I esteem them almost equal to MSS.

TRANSLATION OF INCUNABLE

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCUNABLE»

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The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur

Although two, different levels of ornamental initial letters are placed at the beginnings of lines in the manuscript, as they are in the incunable, they are far less frequent. There aie 111 (on the extant folios; 129 hypothesized were the missing ...

Bonnie Wheeler, Robert L. Kindrick, Michael Norman Salda, 2000

Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625: From the ...

Late- scholasticism and humanism are, of course, not monolithic and homoge- neous movements. Our contribution may be considered as a further Illustration of that point. The Ghent Boethius The incunable Our example of the 'late medieval' ...

Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt, A. H. Van Der Laan, 1999

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Hephaestus Books, 2011

Incunabul: Natural History, Incunable, Global Spread of the ...

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Early Printed Books as Material Objects: Proceedings of the ...

The historical book, be it a manuscript, incunable or printed book of the sixteenth century, is a source with two principal dimensions. On the one hand, it functions as a primary source of the text which it transmits to the reader; the printed edition  ...

Bettina Wagner, Marcia Reed, 2010

A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in ...

397-8), along with a set of incunable statistics (listed in 'Proctor order') from the same year ( Library Records e. 396). There is, also, in the British Library, an interesting set of six manuscript notebooks compiled by Proctor during the period  ...

Bodleian Library, Alan Edward Coates, 2005

The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in ...

In the back of the same incunable, the right margin of another folio is preserved. The binding holes are visible to the right, indicating that this is the inner margin of the verso side. In Lambach Stiftsbibliothek Ink. 1.95, strips from the top of two ...

Lisa Fagin Davis, 2000

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A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558

In her analysis of the genres of English works produced by the three main printers of the incunable period, Hellinga estimates Caxton's English works of lay devotion and saints' lives at an output of 35 per cent (out of a total production of 91 per ...

Vincent Gillespie, Susan Powell, 2014

A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle ...

I stress, first of all, that although NEW YORK is a text that, witness chapters 4 and 5 above, was capable of leading an independent life, it did not do so in the incunable from which it was copied,2 nor, for that matter, did it do so in the other ...

Josephie Brefeld, 1994

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCUNABLE»

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Sony Classics Pushes 'Lady In The Van' Off 2015; Sundance Native …

David Posamentier and Geoff Moore have been tapped by Incunable Prods. to adapt the novel Give + Take, a story about a jazz pianist who ... «Deadline, Jul 15»

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Avec l'incunable Grace de Jeff Buckley, ces sillons aussi lascifs que névrosés datés d'août 1994 ont le mieux résisté à l'inexorable empreinte ... «Le Temps, Jul 15»

'Better Living Through Chemistry' Duo to Adapt 'Give + Take …

Newly-formed Incunable Productions, founded by Matt Kennedy and Barbara Brandfass, aims to acquire and develop a portfolio of diverse ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»

Floyd Mayweather gastará 4.8 millones de dólares en su próximo auto

Un verdadero incunable. Presentada en 2010, esta cupé de dos plazas lleva un motor V8 capaz de desarrollar 1.081 caballos de fuerza. «Clarín.com, Jun 15»

David Miliband hints at another stint in British politics

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