Word: incunabula
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...time the library was estimated to contain over 120,000 volumes, besides 360 manuscripts, several belonging to the twelfth century, and a splendid collection of over 350 incunabula. During the existence of the modern university, not very much attention had been devoted to these ancient collections, but during the past dozen years very much has been done to augment the modern part of the library by the addition of scientific and literary works for practical use in university education, in the development of special collections, and in providing reading-rooms. Several years ago the new librarian, Professor Delannoy, however, devoted...
...other incunabula have lately been bought with the gift of Mr. Alain C. White: namely, Vergil, with the commentary of Servius Honoratus, Venice, printed by Jacobus Rubeus, 1475, and Petrach, Gli Triompi, Venice, Bartholomeus di Zanis...
...history of the Ottoman Turks and their wars with Europe. There are about eighty Italian poems written just after the battle of Lepanto in 1570 in celebration of the Christian victory, many of which are probably unique and therefore of considerable value. In the set are one hundred incunabula or books printed before 1500. One of these was printed in 1170, only twenty years after the invention of the art of printing. These incunabula and the manuscripts are in a marvelous state of preservation and some of them are very handsomely bound. The next installment will arrive at Cambridge...
...library, in co-operation with all the other libraries in the United States, has recently been engaged in preparing a list of its incunabula or books published before 1500. This work is being done at the request of the Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing