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incunabulumBook printed before 1501. The date, though convenient, is arbitrary and unconnected to any development in the printing art. The term was probably first applied to early printing in general c. 1650. The total number of editions produced by 15th-century European presses is generally estimated at above 35,000, excluding ephemeral literature (e.g., single sheets, ballads, and devotional tracts) that is now lost or exists only in fragments in places such as binding linings. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Alessandro Daneloni has now given us a detailed study of Poliziano's frequently dense autograph marginalia in his working copy of Quintilian (Milan: Antonio Zarotto, 1476; Hain 13648), which is today the incunable Banco rari 379 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence. None of these volumes have ever either been fully cataloged or recorded in any published census of medieval manuscripts or incunable editions. Caterina Griffante follows this with a characteristically careful and comprehensive listing of the ninety-six incunable and cinquecentine editions published between 1474 (Calderini's commentaries on Martial) and 1599 (the local historian Giovanni Doglioni's L'Anno riformato), and held in the "fondo antico, quattro e cinquecentesco" of the Biblioteca Civica of Belluno. |
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