Glossary Term Image

Incunable

in·cu·na·ble (in-kyoon-ebel)

French, from New Latin incūnābulum

anything printed during the 15th century, the first century of printing with “moveable type”; from the Latin, meaning “from the cradle”; can also be used in a relative sense to refer to other early printings, i.e. incunables from the Pacific islands.