Incunable
Back to people overviewAnything printed during the fifteenth century, the first century of printing with ‘moveable type’. From the Latin, meaning ‘from the cradle’. The plural is “incunabula”.
![A world map from the 15th Century, and the Earth is surrounded by Windheads.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/foan2pfl/production/bad3a5b6f712461fbe716526f1a27644b89b3457-2388x1735.jpg?w=3840&q=85&auto=format)
Anything printed during the fifteenth century, the first century of printing with ‘moveable type’. From the Latin, meaning ‘from the cradle’. The plural is “incunabula”.