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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An incunabulum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book printed in the infancy of the art, before the year 1500. See
incunabula , 3.
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- noun A very early printed
book , specifically one printed before 1501; anincunabulum .
Etymologies
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Marburg is famous for its medieval churches, especially the Elisabethkirche, one of the two or three first purely Gothic churches north of the Alps outside of France and thus an incunable of Gothic architecture in Germany, as well as for the castle.
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Marburg is famous for its medieval churches, especially the Elisabethkirche, one of the two or three first purely Gothic churches north of the Alps outside of France and thus an incunable of Gothic architecture in Germany, as well as for the castle.
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Elisabethkirche, one of the two or three first purely Gothic churches north of the Alps outside of France and thus an incunable of Gothic architecture in Germany, as well as for the castle.
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bestiary commented on the word incunable
alt. of incunabulum; a book printed before 1501.
July 24, 2008