cunabula

The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their _cunabula_ behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

The so-called Incunabula (Lat. cunabula, pl., "cradle") 2.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

About 200 B.C. two brothers, Publius and Sextus Aelius, both citizens of consular and censorial rank, published a systematic treatise called _Tripertita_, which was long afterwards held in reverence as containing the _cunabula iuris_, the cradle out of which the vast systems of later ages sprang.

Latin Literature 1902

The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their cunabula behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and, according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect.

Cape Cod 1865

Nostra Paula, [129] quae ex urbano palatio et opimis praediis in speluncam Bethleemiticam tantis itineribus peregrina cucurrit, ut ad Christi vagientis cunabula delitesceret.

Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

Ipfae confident medicatis fedibus; iplae Intima more fuo fefe in cunabula condent.

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

Creta Jovis magni medio jaoet infula pontoj Mon/Idseus ubi, et gentis cunabula noffa».

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

_incunabula_, or cradle-books (from Latin _cunabula_, a cradle) a term applied to all works produced in the infancy of printing, and most commonly to those appearing before 1500.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Castaliusque mihi noua pocula fontis alumnus5 ingerit et late campos metatus apertos imponitque iugum uati retinetque corymbis implicitum ducitque per auia, qua sola numquam trita rotis. iuuat aurato procedere curru et parere deo: uiridis en ire per herbas10 imperat: intacto premimus uestigia musco; et, quamuis cursus ostendat tramite noto obuia Calliope facilis, insistere prato complacitum, rudibus qua luceat orbita sulcis. nam quis non Nioben numeroso funere maestam15 iam cecinit? quis non Semelen ignemque iugalem letalemque simul nouit de paelicis astu? quis magno recreata tacet cunabula Baccho, ut pater omnipotens maternos reddere mensis dignatus iusti complerit tempora partus?

Exordium to a Poem on Hunting 1912

Titanasque senes louis et cunabula magni15 et sub fratre uiri nomen sine matre parentis atque iterum patrio nascentem corpore Bacchum omniaque inmenso uolitantia lumina mundo. quin etiam ruris cultus legesque notauit militiamque soli; quod collis Bacchus amaret, 20 quod fecunda Ceres campos, quod Pallas utrumque, atque arbusta uagis essent quod adultera pomis, silurumque deos sacrataque flumina nymphis, pacis opus magnos naturae condit in usus. astrorum quidam uarias dixere figuras25 signaque diffuso passim labentia caelo in proprium cuiusque genus causasque tulere:

The Theme of the Astrological Poet 1912