Examples of “incunabulum” in a Sentence

noun A book, sheet or image printed in Europe before the year 1501.

• The museum's collection includes a rare incunabulum printed in Venice.
• Scholars date the incunabulum by its type and paper.
• Only a handful of copies of this incunabulum survive today.

noun The earliest stage, origin or birthplace of something, usually spoken of in the plural.

• Historians traced the incunabula of the movement back to a small reading group.
• The old workshop is often described as the incunabulum of the company.