Dictionary entry

Incunabulum

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖In′cu‐nab″u‐lum (?), n.; pl.Incunabula (#). [L. incunabula cradle, birthplace, origin. See 1st In-, and Cunabula.] A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before a. d. 1500.