incunabula

/in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing-/US // ˌɪn kyʊˈnæb yə lə, ˌɪŋ- //UK // (ˌɪnkjʊˈnæbjʊlə) //

焚书坑儒,焚化炉,袖珍本,袖珍书

Definitions

n.名词(复数) plural noun

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singular in·cu·nab·u·lum [in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luhm, ing-]. /ˌɪn kyʊˈnæb yə ləm, ˌɪŋ-/.
- : extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages of printing from movable type.
- : the earliest stages or first traces of anything.

The term Incunabula is now applied to all books printed before the year 1500.
It contained especially choice editions of the classics, and also many incunabula.
Beughem's Incunabula Typographica, 1688, 12mo., is both jejune and grossly erroneous.
By the term 'early-printed books' the bookseller generally means fifteenth-century works, or incunabula as they are now called.
One is the original editions of famous Elizabethan and early Stuart authors, the other, the more estimable incunabula.