2006-04-24
Incunabulae
I must thank David Carroll and Steve Proposch for sending these scans to me. The title is mispelled in the scan, as you can see. It's not an everyday word, so it's a trivial point.
The word incunabula means "cradle" or "one's earliest years" in Latin. Its nowadays meaning is any books printed before 1500 AD. The plural is incunabuli, as far as I can tell, and the way I've spelled it is wrong. Oh well.
