Word: incunabulum
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Most valuable of the books on display is a Petrarch "incunabulum Trionfl", printed in Venice in 1497. Also included are an early edition of Boccaccio's "Decameron", printed at Brescia in 1536, and a very rare edition of Boccaccio's "Thirteen Delectable Questions", one of the earliest translations of Boccaccio to be printed in England, published in London...
...Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi. radius was William Beaumont, an Army surgeon who meticulously recorded in a diary every medical tittle and jot he performed. For June 6, 1822, the entry, now a precious incunabulum in the history of U. S. Medicine, reads...
Among the purchases for the Gray Collection are: "The Triumph of Chastity," a fifteenth century Italian engraving; two wood-cuts of the Passion after Lucas Cranach; and an incunabulum, "Book of Hours," printed on vellum, and illustrated with relief engravings on metals...
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