Incunabula are books printed in the earliest years of mechanical
printing. Generally, they are books
printed between Gutenberg’s invention of a method of printing with movable type
in 1448 until the opening of the sixteenth century in 1501. The word incunabula is derived from the Latin,
meaning “cradle” or “swaddling clothes,” therefore the beginning of something. Incunabula are the beginning of modern
printing and book making. One of the
most famous incunabulum is the Gutenberg Bible, of which there are 22 known
copies still existing out of approximately 200 that were originally printed.
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