Facts about Incunabulum

1. 06

   Printed on vellum or paper, incunabula typically imitated the handwritten manuscripts they were replacing, often using Gothic typefaces familiar to contemporary readers.

   IncunabulumJun 8shareprintinghistorybooks
2. 05

   Italy, particularly Venice, was the leading center of incunabulum production, accounting for a large proportion of all fifteenth-century printed books.

   IncunabulumJun 7shareprintinghistoryeurope
3. 04

   Most incunabula were printed in Latin, reflecting the scholarly and ecclesiastical readership that dominated early European book culture.

   IncunabulumJun 7shareprintinghistorybooks
4. 03

   Surviving incunabula are catalogued in the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, which records hundreds of thousands of copies held in libraries worldwide.

   IncunabulumJun 7sharebibliographyhistoryprinting
5. 02

   The Gutenberg Bible, printed around 1455, is among the most celebrated incunabula and one of the first major books produced with movable type in Europe.

   IncunabulumJun 7shareprintinghistorybooks
6. 01

   An incunabulum is any book printed using movable type before the year 1501, capturing the earliest decades of European printing.

   IncunabulumJun 7shareprintinghistorybooks