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Incunabula

Definition

(rare, literary) The earliest stages or first beginnings of something; the initial phase of a development or process. In printing, specifically refers to books printed in the first fifty years after the invention of movable type (1450-1500).

Example Sentences

1The discovery of penicillin marked the incunabula of modern antibiotic therapy.
2Historians often study the incunabula of a social movement to understand its underlying causes and motivations.
3The Renaissance humanists saw themselves as reviving the incunabula of classical Greek and Roman culture.
4The incunabula of the digital age were marked by the development of the first personal computers and the internet.
5Scholars of book history often focus on the incunabula of printing, examining the early experiments with movable type and the spread of literacy.

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