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    An incunable or incunabulum (pl.: incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of...
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  • The Golden Legend, a translation by William Caxton; as the most printed incunable across Europe, this reaches its 9th edition in English by 1527 Giacomo...
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    prophecy of the fall of Troy (at left) and her death (at right), from an Incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus...
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    a book said to be by Francesco Colonna. It is a famous example of an incunable (a work of early printing). The work was first published in 1499 in Venice...
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  • German state government of Baden-Württemberg authorized the sale of an incunable about Medieval history to him in 2008. The price was about Euro 20 million...
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    Woodcut illustration of Camilla and Metabus escaping into exile, from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus...
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    Synodalia Episcoporum Wratislaviensium (1475) by Kasper Elyan, the first ever incunable in Polish, containing the proceedings and prayers of the Wrocław bishops...
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    normal method. The "great majority of incunables did not issue from the press in a finished state... hardly any incunable was considered 'finished' by its...
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    sheets and images which were created before 1501 in Europe are known as incunables or incunabula. Steam-powered printing presses became popular in the early...
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    humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunables of Etruscology, he engaged in running skirmishes in print with his rival...
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    Page from an incunable of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, printed in red and black by Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471)...
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    cataloging all extant incunables under the GW's system is indefinitely far-off. The ISTC was created to establish a system of incunable cataloging that was...
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  • Sothebys.com Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine "64 Mexican incunables and counting | John Carter Brown Library". jcblibrary.org. Archived from...
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    The incunable Disputatio nuper facta in domo Magnifici Laurentii Medices from 1489, an account of Nicolaus' debate with Dragišić in Florence...
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    single sheets, and images created before 1501 in Europe are known as incunables or incunabula. "A man born in 1453, the year of the fall of Constantinople...
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    Bible was still set in Textualis type, the oldest preserved Schwabacher incunable dates from 1472, and was printed in Augsburg. Schwabacher types appeared...
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    largest print-runs of an edition during the incunabula (also known as the incunable period of book production c. 1455–1500), one of the first large-scale...
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    Commentarii ("Commentaries on the Poems of Virgil"), constituted the first incunable to be printed at Florence, by Bernardo Cennini, in 1471. In the Saturnalia...
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  • Rušd. DARE aims to provide scholars with the digitized manuscripts and incunables of Averroes's works (around 60,000 as of April 2013), as well as edited...
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    educated woman and talented poet. In this woodcut, illustrating an early incunable of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, she is portrayed surrounded by books...
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    Adri K. Offenberg - The Printing History of the Constantinople Hebrew Incunable of 1493: A Mediterranean Voyage of Discovery, in The British Library Journal...
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    Page from an incunable of Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, printed in red and black by Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471)....
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    The murder of Julius Caesar - an incident discussed in Polycraticus. From a 1474 incunable....
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    entirely new field for conveying up-to-date information to the public. Incunable are surviving pre-16th century print works which are collected by many...
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    Limp binding of an incunable, made of vellum with broken book clasp of the 15th century...
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    keeping a "trophy book". Books in Germany Canons of page construction Incunable Jikji List of most expensive books and manuscripts Niels Henry Sonne....
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    ouvre une grande médiathèque sur le port in L'Express (in French) "Les incunables" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg. 10...
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    was the earliest attempt to identify and examine setting copy for an incunable edition of a Middle English work. De Worde published more than 400 books...
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  • a 1947 Masco guitar amplifier that belonged to Hank Williams; a 1484 incunable illuminated book, which Rick wishes to purchase for himself, much to the...
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    degli Italiani LXII Dugoni – Enza. Rome, 1993. Carta de Logu 15th century Incunable. http://www.sardegnacultura.it/documenti/7_88_20070215114729.pdf Lupinu...
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