cunabula

Latin cūnābula (“cradle”).

cunabula pl (plural only) (obsolete)

1. The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals.

   the cunabula of the human race

2. The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
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• “cunabula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

cūnābula

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cūnābulum

• “cunabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cunabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cunabula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.